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THE MINING JOURNAL for MARCH 15, 1933

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

Rodgers Peale, mining geologist, is located at Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico, with the Guanacevi Mining Company.
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C. H. Gilbert, of Ajo, Arizona, is spending some time at Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico, where he is operating a gold mine.
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Arthur E. Hepburn, Consulting engineer, Box 979, Santa Monica, California, expects to go to Sonora, Mexico, within the next two weeks.
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P. N. Petersen, of New York City, Vice-president of the Weepah Consolidated Mines Company, at Weepah, Nevada, visited the mine.
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Pat Leach, pioneer mine operator, is located at Grangeville, Idaho. “Pat” says he has leased on every hill in Cripple Creek, except on Raven Hill.
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J. J. Hoogstraat, is Chairman, and George H. West, Secretary-Treasurer, of the Grants Pass unit, of the Southern Oregon-Northern California Mining Association.
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E. E. Morrison, of Eugene, Oregon, has spent some time in Grants Pass, on matters relative to the Robert E. Gold Mine. He is a director of the company.
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A. E. Place, Mining engineer, 530 Bartlett Building, Los Angeles, California, has been examining gold mines in Pinal County, Arizona, for Los Angeles capital.
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Don Peaker, graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Class of ‘31, has returned for a semester of advanced work in geology and geophysics. His Golden address is Box 336.
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T. J. Ryan, mining man, and diamond drill contractor, has returned to his headquarters at Superior, Arizona, after a business trip that took him to several points in Colorado.
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Frank W. Royer, Mining engineer, 606 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, made an examination of the Stone Cabin Consolidated Mines, Inc., property at Como, Lyon County, Nevada.
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Roy A. Hardy, and H. O. Hall, of Reno, Nevada, Manager and Vice-president, respectively, of the Halifax Tonopah Mining Company, have returned from a business trip to New York City.
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H. A. Houser, President of the Warrior Consolidated Gold, Inc., has returned to Los Angeles, 509 South Hobart Boulevard, after spending two months in New York, and other financial centers.
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Gustavus Sessinghaus, Metallurgist, 309 Engineers Building, Denver, Colorado, and Secretary of the Colorado Chapter of the A. I. M. E., represented Colorado at the national meeting, in New York City.
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A. L. Kelley is recuperating in Cuernavaca, after several weeks illness, in the American Hospital, at Mexico City. When fully recovered, he proposes to return to his mining properties at La Norm, Zacatecas.
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Frank T. Tatge,of Chicago, Egineer and Cpitalist, has been placed on the directorate of the Zuma Mining and Milling Company, succeeding Frank Cromar. The company’s holdings are in the East Tintic Dstrict, Utah.
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Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the Department of Geology, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, has been appointed as a director of the Oregon State Mining Congress. He is also Vice-president of the Western Oregon Mining Association.
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TWO WESTERN MINING MEN RECEIVE FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS

Two men, intimately connected with the mining industry, are to hold key positions with the Roosevelt Administration. The first appointment was that of ex-Governor Darn, of Utah, as Secretary of War, and the second, that of Representative Lewis W. Douglas, of Arizona, as Director of the Federal Budget.

George H. Dern has been Governor of Utah, since 1925, serving for two four-year terms. He has been a true friend, and energetic champion, of the state’s best interests. It is sincerely believed that he will so serve as Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt. The secretary-ship will include new and important civil duties.

Born on a Nebraska farm, he went to the University of Nebraska, and played on its championship football team. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper, for the Mercur Gold Mining and Milling Company, learned engineering, and is the co-inventor of the Holt-Dern Ore Roaster.

A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, and is today, one of Utah’s wealthier citizens. Of military experience, he has none. It is true he was Commander-in-Chief of the Utah National Guard, consisting of two regiments of field artillery, although not a member, and in University, played in the Cadet band.

His entry into higher political circles, was in 1913, when he was elected a member of the Utah Senate. In that capacity, he continued to serve until 1925, when he was chosen as Governor.

The appointment of Representative Douglas as Director of the Budget, has met with enthusiastic reception, in both Eastern and Western financial, and political circles, and occasioned much favorable editorial comment from the press. Because of the important and sweeping changes contemplated by the new administration, the budget directorship ranks with a cabinet seat.

Lewis W. Douglas has been Arizona’s Congressman, since 1927, serving his state with outstanding ability. Previous to his national office, he was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, from 1923, to 1925, inclusive.

Douglas was born in 1894, a Westerner of Eastern antecedents. The name of Douglas has been intimately associated with Arizona’s mining history, for three generations. He received his education at Amherst College, graduating in 1916. He then studied geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he entered the service, in May, 1917. He was a first lieutenant, in the 91st Division, and served in the front line in France, participating in the Argonne Offensive, and in the drive in Flanders. General John J. Pershing cited him for bravery in action, and he was decorated by the King of Belgium.

For a short period following the war, he was an instructor in history at Amherst College, but in 1921, he returned to Arizona, and actively engaged in mining, and citrus raising, until his entrance in the national political field. He maintains his home at Phoenix, Arizona.
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Zygmunt Mitera, Transfer Graduate Student, from Krakow, Poland, has returned to the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, to continue his work on a doctor’s degree. Mitera spent last fall, doing geophysical field work in Poland.
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James G. Parmelee, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, retiring Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Chapter of the A. I. M. E., represented the local section, at the annual meeting of the Institute, in New York City, February 20 to 23.
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Clarence William Poy, is leaving Russia, the early part of March, to return to this country, having completed his three-year contract with the Russian Government. He will be located temporarily at 945 North Ninety-Second Street, Seattle, Washington.
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Sydney Schoen, of New York City, Treasurer of the Monarch Gold Ledge Mines, Inc., at Eastgate, Nevada, arrived in Reno, to visit the mine. He was accompanied west, by Mrs. Schoen, and two children. They made the trip by boat, to San Francisco.
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E. J. Roberts, mining engineer and geologist, 744 Russ Building, San Francisco, recently spent two days on the Comstock Lode, examining the properties under development by the Consolidated Savage, Gould, and Chollar Company, at Gold Hill.
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S. H. Knight, Professor of Geology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, is Director of the special course in geology, to be given June 17, to July 22, 1933. The advanced field course is given in co-operation with the Department of Geology, of Columbia University.
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H. E. Winser has resumed the brokerage business, with offices in the U. S. National Bank Building, in Denver. The firm is known as H. E. Winser & Son, Inc. During the last ten years, Winser has been engaged in mining operations, with headquarters at Idaho Springs, Colorado.
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Two new engineers have been added to the staff of the Gnome Gold Mining Company, at Orogrande, Idaho. They are Reginald J. MeIIor, formerly with the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, near Murray, Idaho, and W. H. North, formerly with the Standard Silver Lead Mining Company, at Silverton, B. C.
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Walter E. Burlingame, and Charles O. Parker, of Denver, Colorado, have dissolved partnership, and each is now conducting an assaying and chemical analysis business. Burlingame’ s new location is 2040 Broadway, while Parker continues to operate the laboratory formerly owned by the partnership, at 1901 Lawrence Street.
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An additional load has been thrown upon Dr. Dorsey A. Lyon, Director of the Utah Engineering Experiment Station, with his appointment as Secretary to President George Thomas, of the University of Utah. This is a part of a retrenchment policy to cut expenses, and Dr. Lyon will serve in the new capacity without remuneration. He is also Assistant Dean of Men, at the University.
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Theo. M. Martin Company, announces the opening of offices at 5905 Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park, California, for the handling of industrial advertising. The company will be headed by Theo. M. Martin, formerly of Berry & Martin, Inc., and with him, will be associated Wallace A. Sawdon, and Lloyd C. Woods. Mr. Martin has been in the advertising business for many years, and was for two and one-half years, Advertising Manager, for the Oil Tool Division, of Byron Jackson Company.
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Howard W. Smith, of New York City, President of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, at Kimberly, Nevada, has been deposed, by a decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery, in a contest over the legality of the action of a group of stockholders, last May, when the Board of Directors was increased in number from 9, to 15 members, and R. W. Higgins, of Duluth, Minnesota, was elected President.
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W. B. Tucker, Engineer, State Division of Mines, 1206 Bankers Building, Los Angeles, and J. H. Hartley, mining engineer, 945 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, have returned from a trip to the old Duncan Mine, in the Pothole District, and the Laguna Placers, both in Imperial Valley. They also visited the Pinto Basin, in Riverside County, in the neighborhood of the Sunshine Mine. Tucker reports considerable placering on a small scale, in the latter district, and also around Eagle Mountain, and Placer Canyon.
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INVENTION FOR RECORDING AMOUNTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE

An automatic machine for determining the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, is the recent invention of Moyer D. Thomas, of Salt Lake City, employed by American Smelting and Refining Company, as chemistry expert in its Department of Agricultural Research. The invention is designed primarily for research work, and accurately measures the amount of respiration, and photosynthesis (building-up plant tissue under influence of light), and may be used for study of smoke, and breathing in overcrowded enclosed spaces. The American Smelting has applied for a patent on the machine.

This is the second invention perfected by Mr. Moyer. Two years ago, he invented an automatic apparatus, for determination of small concentrations of sulphur dioxide in the air. This invention is now in constant use by the American Smelting and Refining Company.

Mr. Moyer is convinced that his most recent invention will be of greatest value in determining the precise amount of harmful elements in the air. He states that the machine is capable of measuring to one part in one million. It records contenuously, and automatically, both in the open air, and in enclosed spaces.
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MISS ETHEL D. HOOK CLAIMS DISTINCTIVE TITLE

Miss E. D. “Ethel” Hook, of Sacramento, California, insofar as we know, enjoys the distinction of being the only woman in the United States, to purchase gold in commercial quantities. This blond, young woman, is employed by the California MacVan Company, and is given full authority by her employer, A. E. Vandercook, to buy gold in any quantity.

Grizzled old men who have aged in the hills hunting gold, young fellows getting their first callouses, and even women- turned miners to boost family finances— they’re all familiar to her. Sometimes they come with a great deal of gold, and go away with a great deal of money, sometimes they bring as little as 15 cents worth of gold.

Almost two years ago, Vandercook wanted a secretary, who could learn the buying end of the business, because he is away a great deal, attending to various mining properties. Miss Hook had finished a secretarial school course, and was chosen for the work. After three months of careful attention to what was going on, she bought her first gold.

Miss Hook will buy gold dust, nuggets, gold bars, dental, and jewelry gold, and pays for it at the mint rate for gold. Not many buyers do that, and, as a result, scores of miners make regular trips to Sacramento, to sell gold to her. Some days, after a heavy rain, there will be a long line waiting in the hall—then again, only a few stray customers drop in. All of the melting is done in the laboratory at Placerville, and the gold bricks are sent to the Mint, when about $1,000 worth has been accumulated. Sometimes it takes a week, sometimes two weeks, and during very bad weather, three weeks.

When the gold is brought to Miss Hook, she goes through it with a magnet, to clean out the black sand from the panned gold, and then weighs it. If there is a lot, she advances the miner $30 or $40, or whatever he needs, and when the gold is refined, she sends him a check for the balance. Not many nuggets come in, but “for variety we get gold teeth, watches, old bracelets and all sorts of things,” the ore buyer volunteered.

Miss Hook takes great pride in her distinctive calling, and says it is an education in itself to meet and talk with the men who have gold to sell. She says, “They are all dressed rough, but many are highly educated, highly trained, and they certainly are courteous to me.”

Satisfied customers have contributed to her popularity, and a reputation for square dealing. From her income, she supports her mother, and herself, as she has been doing for the last six years. She worked her way through secretarial school, and crowded two years’ study into one, and graduated with honors. She has a hobby —and literally rides it, because it is a horse.

So valuable are Miss Hook’s services, and particularly her exactness in the buying of gold, that her superior officer, President Vandercook, of the California MacVan Company, has insured her against marriage. So, gentlemen, come with your gold dust, but otherwise hesitate and exercise prudence—at least until the insurance policy expires.
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VIRGINIA CITY GOLD MINES PLANS EARLY PRODUCTION

The Virginia City Gold Mining Company expects to have its 60-ton Mill, at the Prospect Mine, near Virginia City, Montana, in operation, early this spring. Approximately 46,000 tons of ore is reported in sight, and its average value, as tests would indicate, is believed to be $14 per ton.

Remarkable progress has been made by this company, since it came into existence 18 months ago, and since incorporating little more than six months ago, this progress has been more marked than ever. In excess of $12,500 has been spent on re-timbering, prospecting, and development, on the repair of roads, and mine buildings, and on machinery. Besides, payrolls have been maintained.

Walter K. Mallette, of Spokane, is President and General Manager, but spends most of his time at Virginia City. His associates are all from that city, where offices are maintained at 515 Standard Stock Exchange Building. Bliss Moore is Vice-president, succeeding Fred W. Callaway, whose recent death was a severe blow.
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AMADOR STAR JOINS MOTHER LODE ACTIVITY

The Arthur Hamburger Mines Company, which owns the Amador Star Mine, on the Mother Lode, three miles north of Plymouth, California, has plans for extensive development work, to include the sinking, drifting, and crosscutting, to the hanging wall vein. It is expected that this program will develop sufficient ore, to place the mine on large-scale production.

The former workings extend to 500 feet, with milling ore being stoped from an oreshoot 350 feet in length, on the 300 and 500-foot levels. The 100-ton flotation plant is equipped with gyratory primary crushing, one 5x22, and two 4x17 Hardinge ball mills with screen classifiers, and a bank of six Kraut flotation cells. This plant makes a 94 percent extraction, and the concentrate is further reduced at Selby. Power for mining and milling, is supplied by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Arthur Hamburger is Resident Manager; P. G. Hotchkiss, Superintendent; R. D. McAfee, Jr., Engineer; and C. H.
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DECEASED

Mathew C. Gardner, prominent mining man, died in Lovelock, Nevada, of acute indigestion.
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Thomas A. Lister, well known mine owner and operator, of Southwestern New Mexico, died at his home, in Lordsburg, on February 23. He had lived in that region for more than 25 years, and was interested in many gold properties.
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John E. Havens, who has been connected with the powder industry in Denver, Colorado, for the last 40 years, died. He was 63 years of age, and was active, until a few days before his death. Influenza was given as the cause.
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Tom Sellars, President of the Arizona Mines Contracting Co., Inc., died at his home, in Wickenburg, Arizona, on February 26. He had resided in the Wickenburg District for five years, during which time he conducted his business as a mining contractor.
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Frank Schanuel, owner and operator of the Gold Coin Mine, near Dewey, Arizona, died from a heart attack, on February 25. He was 51 years old, and had spent all his life mining. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, but at an early age, went to Colorado; later to Arizona and California. He again retraced his steps to Arizona, where death overtook him.
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Frank E. Vassar, 48-year old Los Angeles mining engineer, was fatally injured, six miles east of Yuma, Arizona, February 25, when the light roadster driven by his daughter, skidded on the wet highway, and overturned. He had been examining mining property near Ajo, Arizona, and was returning to his home.
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Robert H. Hawley, Engineer of Mines, was the victim of a speeding motorist, in Los Angeles. He was a native of St. Joseph, Missouri, and received his engineering training at the Colorado School of Mines. He was, for several years, with the Guggenheims, spending a part of the time at the Monterrey Smelter.

With the Nipissing Mines Company, Ltd., he divided his time between New York City, and Canada. With the Utah Copper Company, he was located at Magna, followed as Superintendent of concentration and flotation plants, with the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, at Panda-Likaski, Belgian Congo, Africa. He returned to the United States, in April, 1931, and had been residing in Los Angeles, California.
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John C. Martin, newspaperman, and mining writer, of Tonopah, Nevada, died at his home, following a long illness. He was 75 years of age. With the exception of a short time when he was engaged in special work for the Land Department, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, he was active in newspaper work at Goldfield, and Tonopah, for 28 years, retiring only a few months before his death, because of ill health.
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Word has been received of the death of Harry T. Curran, for some time, a member of Coolidge & Curran Engineers, Inc., at Great Falls, Montana. Mr. Curran was a highly respected citizen, and at the time of his death, a member of the Masonic Lodge. He has had a long line of experience with mining companies in Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, and at one time, was doing metallurgical work and ore testing, for the R. A. Perez Company, of Los Angeles.
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Joseph L. Phillips. Sr., retired mining engineer, passed away, March 3, at his home, at Claremont, California, following a heart attack. He had been interested in mining ventures for many years, in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Southwest. Included in his mining connections, was the Superintendency of the famous Goldroads Mine, at Kingman, Arizona. He, also, was Construction Engineer for the Mexican Central Railroad, from El Paso, to Mexico City. Phillips was a native of Columbia, Missouri, and a graduate mining engineer, from the University of Missouri.
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George T. Jackson, mining engineer, succumbed to a brief illness in the Seattle General Hospital. He was 59 years of age. Mr. Jackson was born in England, and while he practiced his profession in California, South Africa, and other parts of the globe, most of his attention was given to Alaska mines. He was active at Juneau, and Chichagof; Superintendent of the Perseverance Mine; and General Manager of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, which attempted a 6,000-ton-a-day, low-grade proposition, at Thane. The last five years, he resided in Seattle, maintaining an office as Consulting engineer, in the Alaska Building. Last year, he was President of the Seattle Chapter of the A. I. M. E.
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THE MINING JOURNAL
for DECEMBER 15, 1933

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

C. E. James, formerly of Phoenix, Arizona, is operating the Eberly Mine, at Mogollon, New Mexico.
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Frederick D. White, of Seattle, has joined the staff of the Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., at Cornucopia, Oregon.
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H. G. Poole, of Cleveland, Ohio, has joined the staff of the International Molybdenum Company, at Porthill, Idaho.
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Louis Ryn, is working on plans for a new type of mill, designed to treat the mill dumps in the vicinity of Searchlight, Nevada.
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Oscar V. Siefert, formerly located at Santa Maria del Oro, Durango, with Cia. Minera Mercuriocrom, is now at Sweetwater, Texas.
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Joseph L. Thomson, mining engineer, has just returned to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, 1153 Brill Street, following a three-month tour of Mexico.
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H. A. Davison is General Manager of a group of gold-silver mines, at Tamazula, Jalisco, Mexico. This group is owned by private Mexican syndicate.
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Joseph P. Klein, 1122-A Wilshire, Santa Monica, California, accompanied by L. E. Farnham, of Pasadena, is in Prescott, Arizona, looking after mining interests.
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C. N. Gerry and Paul Luff, from the Salt Lake City Office, of the United States Bureau of Mines, are making a trip through the mining districts of Arizona.
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Charles V. Harris, chemist and assayer who has been with the Sheeptanks Consolidated Mines Company, at Vicksburg, is now located at Bisbee, Arizona, Box 2241.
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O. B. Brown, mining engineer, of Wenatchee, Washington, is doing professional work in Stevens County, Washington. He has just returned from a trip into British Columbia.
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Gerald A. Waring, of the U. S. Geological Survey, expects to spend this winter in eastern Utah and Arizona, in charge of groundwater investigations in the high plateau region.
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William E. Crawford, for a number of years, Mill Superintendent for Cia. Beneficiadora de Pachuca, is now Mill Superintendent for The Fresnillo Company, at Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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Walter M. Hoefelman of Cincinnati, Ohio, has returned to his home, after a visit to the Imperial Eagle Mining Company’s property, near Sumpter, Oregon. He is a director of the company.
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W. R. Crane has severed his connection with the United States Bureau of Mines, and has gone into consulting work in mining, at Berkeley, California. His address is 1820 San Pedro Avenue.
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Franklin W. Wakefield, engineer, formerly of San Francisco, California, is engaged in mining operations in Sonora, Mexico. He maintains headquarters at 632 South Fifth Avenue, Tucson, Arizona.
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Duncan Anderson McNaughton, of Los Angeles has joined the junior members of the A. I. M. E. He is connected with the Department of Geology, of the California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena.
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S. S. Dettman, mining engineer, has joined the staff of F. A. Crampton, at the Remington Hill Placers, near Nevada City, California. Dettman is a graduate engineer from Colorado School of Mines, Class of ‘31.
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James Bradley, formerly General Superintendent of Operations, at the Spanish Mine, at Washington, California, is in New York City. His address is the Park Central Hotel, Seventh Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street.
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Ned Creighton, President of Wenden Copper Mining Company, and W. A. Buchanan, Superintendent of Nellie Meda Gold Mines, have recently returned to Phoenix, and Aguila, Arizona, from a trip into Nevada.
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Roswell W. Prouty, mining geologist, and John Lea, mining engineer, with offices at 1206 Pacific National Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, are on their way to Honduras, Central America, on mining business.
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A. E. Hepburn, consulting geologist, Tremont Hotel, Denver, Colorado, is representing London interests in the examination of several mining properties in Sonora, Mexico, and in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona.
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Bern. H. Hopkins, formerly of Colorado Springs, has just returned from the goldfields of Western Canada, and has joined Theodore Zadra, of Denver, in the operations of the Isis Gold Mining Company, at Cripple Creek.
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Charles A. Ordway, engineer with Win. J. Howard, Inc., 10 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, has been examining a gold property near Willcox, Arizona, for the purpose of security issuance, under the Illinois Security law.
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H. J. Evans has completed an extended placer examination on the San Miguel River, of Sonora, Mexico, and returned to 529 Daymon Street, Long Beach, California. During this work, Mr. Evans was stationed at Cucurpe, Sonora.
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Junior Associates, who have been raised to memberships in A. I. M. E., are Robert B. Dickson, of Ophir, Colorado, statistician, American Bureau of Metal Statistics; and John F. Shaw, Superintendent of the South Burns Mine, at Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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E. W. Liljegran, of Medford, Oregon, has resumed work in general assaying. His laboratory is at the corner of Sixth and Front Streets. Liljegran is well known in Oregon, and has been connected with a number of mining operations there.
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Henry Bradley, Superintendent of the Beebe Mill, at Georgetown, California, has gone to San Francisco, where he will work with R. G. Hall, on a cyanide problem. Erick Puschmann has been appointed as Acting Mill Man, during Bradley’s absence.
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William D. Mark is at Lima, Peru, on the Geological staff, of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation. He was formerly with the Hercules Mining Company, of Wallace, Idaho, and on the geological staff, of the Anaconda Copper Company, at Butte, Montana.
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Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, spent the last ten days of November, in Sonora, Mexico, making an examination of gold property, in the Altar District. He states that he has acquired the property, and will begin operations at an early date.
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Frank W. Brown, President of Western States Gold Mining Company, 405 Pacific Southwest Building, Pasadena, California, is in Prescott, and Cherry, Arizona, on business connected with his property.
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Harry Land, veteran leaser of the El Paso and Beacon Hill sections of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is in charge of the reopening of the El Paso Mine, for the Hidalgo Gold Mines, Inc. It is probable that he will be retained as superintendent, after the job is finished.
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Arthur Swanson, General Manager of Los Lugos Gold Mines, has returned to the company’s property at Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, after a short visit in San Francisco and Seattle. Some changes in mine development, and the mill flowsheet are to be made.
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Among employees at the Cactus Mining Company, Duncan, Arizona, are the following Colorado School of Mines men: Lawrence Smith, Class of ‘31; George Setter, Class of ‘32; Vincent Burnhart, Class of‘32, and M. E. Volin, Class of ‘33. The Superintendent of Operations, is Henry P. Nagel, of Denver, class of ‘04.
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E. E. Whiteley, Consulting mining engineer, 614 East California Street, Pasadena, California, is at Valdez, Alaska. He is in charge of the installation of considerable new machinery, including two boilers, dynamo, and motor, at the Cliff Mine, lately taken over by Gen. A. D. McRae.
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E. P. Rankin, Jr., well known throughout the Southwest, and California, as a Structural Steel engineer, is now with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, engaged on the road project, from Kingman, to the Boulder Dam. His address is c/o U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, Bin 8, Kingman, Arizona.
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The nominating committee for the Arizona Section, A. I. M. E., announces the following nominations for officers for 1934: E. P. Mathewson, Chairman; F. W. Maclennan, First Vice-president; Clyde E. Weed, Second Vice-chairman; Henry F. Easter, G. H. Dowell, R. D. Leisk, Arthur Crowfoot, members of the Executive Committee.
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F. W. Libbey, who has been operating in the Globe-Miami District, for some months, has moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he will make his home, and business headquarters. In addition to other matters to which he will devote his attention, Mr. Libbey will be associated with the Nellie Meda Gold Mines, in a consulting capacity.
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Stuart French, for many years, General Manager of the Copper Queen Mine, of Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Bisbee, Arizona, spent several days, early in December, renewing friendships in Phoenix, and the Salt River Valley. For several years, Mr. French has lived on the Pacific Coast, his home being 501 Bellefontaine, Pasadena, California.
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G. A. Franz, mining man, of Ouray, Colorado, and President of the Banner American Mining Company, has been chosen as head of a new organization in that state, to work in the interest of the re-monetization of silver. The organization includes the president and the secretary, of each Chamber of Commerce on the Western Slope of Colorado.
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C. W. Plumb, for a number of years, General Superintendent of the Mason Valley Mines, in Nevada, has assumed charge of operations for the Sliger Gold Mining Company, at Georgetown, California. Plumb returned only a few weeks ago, from Quebec, Canada, where he had been with the Consolidated Copper and Sulphur Company, at Eustis. His address is 3405 T Street, Sacramento.
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John E. Penberthy, who has been associated with Union Miniere du Haut Katatnga, for the last six years, is leaving the Belgian Congo, for the United States, on January 1. Before joining the staff of the African company, Penberthy was, for a number of years, connected with the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and was Assistant General Manager at Moctezuma Copper Company.
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Edmund Conrad Bitzer, mill shift foreman, Balatoc Mining Company, Baguio, Phillipine Islands, has changed his status from junior associate, to member of the A. I. M. E. Bitzer is a Colorado man, and was at one time, in the Research Department of the Mine and Smelter Supply Company, at Denver. He went to the Philippines, as Assistant engineer for the Itogon Mining Company, also at Baguio.
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On Tuesday, November 7, W. F. Durfee, gold buyer at Auburn, California, shipped more than 350 ounces of gold, approximately $10,500 worth, as a pool, contributed by prospectors and operators from the district. Two weeks earlier, he made a similar shipment, that was worth around $8,000. Durfee states that this is more gold than has been shipped from the district, in more than 50 years.
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D. C. Sharpstone is in charge of drill prospecting, at Mountain City, Nevada, on ground adjacent to that owned by the Mountain City Copper Company, for Edward C. Congdon, of Duluth, Minnesota. Sharpstone was at one time, on the geological staff of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and more recently, Chief Geologist and Chief Engineer, at the Roan Antelope Mine, in South Africa.
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George F. Stott, mining engineer of Lark, Utah, and for a number of years, Superintendent of the Bingham Prospect, in Bingham Canyon, has been engaged as Superintendent of the Development Campaign, now getting under way at the Tintic Gold Mining Company’s property, at Mammoth, Utah. New equipment, including a compressor, hoist, and transformer, has been provided to carry on the work.
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Ben Wilson, who has been in Phoenix, Arizona, for some time, has left for London, where he will rejoin the staff of A. G. McGregor, metallurgical designer. It is presumed that he has been recalled to work on extensions for the Roan Antelope plants, in Northern Rhodesia. Mr. Wilson was a member of the staff, which McGregor took with him to London, in 1927, and was engaged in the actual construction of the Roan Antelope plants.
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P. G. Spilsbury, Consulting and Research engineer for Anaconda Copper Mining Company, American Brass Company, and Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, is making a brief visit in Phoenix, Arizona, his former home. Mr. Spilsbury was former President of the Arizona Industrial Congress. At present, Mr. Spilsbury is devoting his energies to the increasing of copper consumption, and promoting the many new uses which have been found for the metal.
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W. Taylor Graham, mining engineer of Oregon and Colorado, has gone to the Philippines, where he has received an appointment as Mine Superintendent for the Baguio Gold Mining Company, at Baguio. Mrs. Graham and their two daughters are temporarily remaining at Forest Grove, Oregon. Graham has spent a number of years in Colorado, where he has been Superintendent for the Rawley Mines, and later, leasing on the Cresson Mine, at Cripple Creek.
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W. H. Eardley, Assistant Manager of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has returned from the Rico District, in Colorado, where he contracted for the shipment of considerable lead-zinc ore, to the Midvale plant. The Baer Bros. have contracted to sell their lead-zinc ore, that has been in storage four years. There are about 15 carloads to be shipped. The zinc is what the smelter wants most.
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H. L. Burmeister, of the Bradley Engineering Staff, has been transferred from the Beebe Mine at Georgetown, California, to the Big Blue Mine at Kernville. The property has lately come under this management, and will be operated as a unit of the Pacific Mines Company. Burmeister will be in charge of the work. The vacancy of the Beebe staff has been filled by Roger Dennis, who has been transferred from the company’s Pine Tree Mine, in Mariposa County.
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To the A. I. M. E. members in the Pacific Coast and Mountain States territory are added the names of: J. C. Brumblay, of Winnemucca, Nevada, since 1929, field representative of the International Smelting Company, and manager of the Copper Canyon Mining Company;
Cecil Earl Shoenfelt, of Denver, Colorado, president of the Petroleum Information, Inc., and Howard W. Squires, of Virginia City Nevada, since 1931, general manager of the Arizona Comstock Corporation.
These junior associate members have become junior members of the A. I. M. E.:
John Francis Callahan, assistant geologist, Warhorse Exploration Company, at Mountain City, Nevada;
Francis Xavier Cappa, of Portland, Oregon;
Franklin Coolbaugh, of Leadville, Colorado, at present, mucker for Climax Molybdenum at Climax;
Junius Foutz, of Salt Lake City, working underground in the United States Mine, at Bingham Canyon;
Charles Kenneth Rose, of Moneta, California,
and Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr., of Gunnison, Colorado.
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Ira D. Travis has been elected as President of the Tintic Standard Mining Company, one of Utah’s leading producers. He was formerly Vice-president, and had been with the company practically since its organization. James W. Wade, formerly Assistant Manager, has been promoted as Vice-president and General Manager, and Harold E. Raddatz, son of the late President E. J. Raddatz, was elected as Treasurer. C. C. Henry, of Salt Lake, and Long Beach, California, was added to the Board of Directors, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Raddatz.
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Arthur Notman, mining engineer, formerly of Bisbee, Arizona, and more recently, of New York, has resigned as adviser to NRA, on codes for the non-ferrous metal industries. He has been serving on this work since last August. Mr. Notman, trade reports state, has not been a believer in “price fixing.” The copper codes submitted by producers, all contain a price-fixing provision, and it has been the opposition to this provisions, as well as to others, that has thus far delayed any agreement on a code. Also, Notman has been strong in opposition to a tariff on copper.
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Morton D. Lindley of Oakland, California, chemical engineer for the Lindley Reduction Corporation, of Keyport, New Jersey, is in charge of exploration work, and the installation of machinery, on a large placer deposit in southern Oregon. This deposit, in early years, produced millions from the surface. Mrs. M. B. Lindley, widely known research chemist and metallurgist, has been conducting special scientific investigations and tests on the auriferous sands and gravels of this placer. The ground is also rich in base metal values. Mr. Lindley’s Oakland address is 2939 East Sixteenth Street.
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Roger T. Pelton, Box 937, Bisbee, Arizona, has been appointed State Civil Works Engineer, for Arizona. Pelton’s appointment was made by the Arizona Civil Works Board. A graduate of Columbia University School of Mines, in 1903, Pelton came to Arizona, the following year, to join the staff of Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, at Bisbee. He served as mining engineer with that organization until 1907. From 1907, until 1919, he acted as Chief Mining Engineer for Phelps Dodge Corporation, Copper Queen Branch. Since 1919, he has maintained offices as a consulting and leasing engineer.
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Applications for membership in the A. I. M. E. have been made by Edward Wesley Ames, Consulting geologist, of San Antonio, Texas, and Ciryl Chalfant Doyle, who is attending the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, taking the special course offered in mine administration. Doyle was former Chief engineer for the Avalos Unit, Cia. Minera de Penoles.
Applicants for change in membership from Junior Associate to Junior Member include:
Fred W. Bates, Jasper, Texas, recording helper and alternate computer with Geophysical Research Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma; George Daniel Roberts, La Luz, New Mexico, and Raymond F. Treybig of La Grande, Texas.
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A. J. WEINIG MAKES IMPORTANT GOLD RECOVERY ANNOUNCEMENT

A new method of recovering gold by “mathematical analysis” has been announced by Arthur J. Weinig, Director of the Experimental Plant, of the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, Colorado. It consists of a mathematical analysis, which reveals the characteristics of finely ground material, so that ore crushers will be able to tell just how fine to crush the ore, in order to get the gold out.

It is possible that by the new process, low-grade ore, which heretofore has not been considered worth working, may be treated, and its gold recovered at a profit.

Mr. Weinig has been Director of the Experimental Plant, since 1923, climaxing a successful career in engineering work, with some of the largest operators of the state. In January, 1930, he won the recognition of the Colorado Engineering Council, for meritorious engineering service to the state, and was presented with a medal. It was the first gold medal award made by the Council.
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OREGON MINING CONGRESS FORMS OPERATING COMPANY

The Oregon Mining Congress is working on an idea, to develop the resources of its state, through public subscription, and in order to comply with the law, has organized a private company. It is known as the Oregon Mines Development Company, and plans are to carry on business as any other mining company, with the exception that there is no promotion stock, and the commission paid for the sale of the stock, is 6 percent. Robert M. Betts, Chairman of the State Mining Board, is President; E. G. Harlan, Secretary to the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, is Secretary, and B. K. Lawson, of Portland, is Treasurer.

The service clubs, American Legion, and the various chambers of commerce throughout the state, hope to be of assistance in disposing of some of the stock, and all funds collected, are to be spent only in Oregon. No compensation has been charged or received in the organization and preliminary work of the company, but a reasonable salary will probably be paid to the men actually engaged in carrying on the business of the company, for the examination of properties, and their operation. It is hoped to give assistance to mines that have just fallen short of the production stage; work will be done on likely prospects, and every effort put forth to stimulate the production of gold.
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COLORADO MINING MEN FORM MINES SERVICE COMPANY

A service, for mining men and mine operators, has been organized at Denver, Colorado, with such reputable engineers as R. P. Akins, Alfred Tellam, and Robert E. Landon, on its technical staff. It is known as the Mines Service Company, and headquarters are 2301 Fifteenth Street. Frank Briscoe, of the Fairplay Gold Mines, Inc., at Alma, is President, and C. T. Chenvert, is Secretary-Treasurer.

The engineers are prepared to render such service as the examination of mining property and prospects, geology, mine mapping, ore testing, metallurgy, mill practice, and operation, design and construction of mills and mill equipment, management of large or small operations in prospecting, mining, or milling.

Mr. Akins is widely recognized as an authority on mill design. He has designed and constructed many mills and reduction plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and is the inventor of the Akins classifier, Portland filter, and the Impact screen.

Mr. Tellam, metallurgist, has successfully handled such responsible positions as Chief Experimental Chemist for Phelps-Dodge, Chief Metallurgist and Mill Manager for the Russo-Asiatic Corporation, in Russia, and for the Vanadium Corporation of America, in Peru and Bolivia.

Mr. Landon, geologist and mineralogist, has his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught on the staff of that institution, and of the Colorado College, at Colorado Springs, and has had practical experience on the geological staff of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and others.
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DECEASED

Walter S. Hobart, 60 years of age, heir to the Nevada mine holdings of his father, the late W. S. Hobart, died in San Diego, California.
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M. H. McGlynn, old-time Goldfield resident, passed away. He was a mine contractor, and spent many years in mining. Among other notable ventures, he is credited with the sinking of the Clearmont Shaft.
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Grant Gardner, for many years an employee of United Verde Copper Company, at Jerome, Arizona, died on November 27, from a heart attack. He joined United Verde as one of the steam shovel crew, but was later assigned to the Timber Department.
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Charles Butters, Berkeley mining engineer, passed away, November 27. He is credited with originating the chlorination process of gold ore treatment. He was awarded the medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society, of Freiburg, Germany, in 1931.
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Abe Shellenberger, pioneer miner of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada, died at his home in Ely, Nevada. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and with an elder brother, came to Nebraska, in 1858. At 16 years of age, he drove an ox team on a freight line, from Omaha, to Salt Lake. Later, he joined the gold rush to Alder Gulch, Montana, and was among the first locators of the famed Alice and Rainbow mines.
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Roy Buhler was killed instantly, when he drilled into a missed hole, in the Combined Metals Mine, at Pioche, Nevada. He was a former resident of Midway, Utah, and his body was taken there for burial.
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George Bernard, for 50 years, one of the leading business men of Cripple Creek-Colorado Springs, died at his home in Colorado Springs, November 24. He was one of the developers of the Elkton Mine, and President of that company. Later, he turned his attention to the El Paso, and other mines at Cripple Creek.
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David W. Terwilliger, well known in the Northwest, and in Alaska, died at Berne, North Carolina, where he had been visiting since last spring. The remains were brought back to Dayton, Washington, for burial. Mr. Terwilliger was born, and grew to manhood, in the State of Kentucky. He came west as far as New Orleans, then to Portland, and to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1901, he went into Alaska, and remained there until 1920, when he went with the Pacific Steamship Company, continuing in their service, until he went to the Carolinas.
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Samuel I. Silverman of Los Angeles, whose mining operations carried him all over the world, died at Ely, Nevada. He is credited with the building of the first gold reduction plant at Butte, Montana, and has built and operated a smelter in Alaska. With John Hays Hammond, he was once associated in a mining enterprise in South Africa. A recent venture was with the American Smelting and Refining Company, in Utah. Mr. Silverman was a Shriner; a charter member of the A. I. M. E., and one of the organizers of the Rocky Mountain Club.
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STUDY, And be FREE from the BONDS of IGNORANCE!

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THE MINING JOURNAL for March 30, 1934

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

James Clamp, is in charge of the rehabilitating of the Revenue Mine, in the Ouray District, in Colorado.
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George B. Stone, formerly on the staff at the Betty O’Neal Mine, is engaged in mining, south of Valmy, Nevada.
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Arthur Jansen, is Superintendent of the Snowflake Mining Company, operating at Gold Springs, near Caliente, Nevada (actually Fay area, almost 30 miles due east of Pioche, NV).
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Carl Gall, is manager of the Monterrey Refinery, of American Smelting and Refining Company, at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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F. W. Bewley, formerly in charge of the Tropico Mil, at Rosamond, California, for the Burton Bros., has gone to Republic, Washington.
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Inginiero (Engineer) Santiago Soto, formerly of Mexico City, is located at Santa Ana, Sonora, as Director of Compradora de Minerales y Pastas (Buyer of minerals and grain), S. A.
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Kurt A. Stolberg, recently of Filer, Idaho, has been engaged as assayer, for the Beebe Gold Mining Company, Inc., at Georgetown, California.
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C. W. Gabrielson, president of Consolidated Gold Mines Company, Bisbee, Arizona, has just returned from a two-weeks’ business trip to New York.
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W. J. Helm, metallurgist, has returned to 1420 1/2 South Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles, California. He had recently been at Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico.
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Nick Kohanowski, returned to Colorado, from New York City, and has taken a position as geologist, with the Colorado International Mining Company, at Victor.
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Charles Cater, of New York City, President of the Como Mines Company, at Dayton, Nevada, is making the Riverside Hotel in Reno, his headquarters these days.
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Dr. Henry Mace Payne, made an examination of the Powers Gold Mine, near Safford, Arizona, the middle of March. Dr. Payne is at present, located at Taos, New Mexico.
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A. G. Setter, 901 Adams Street, Denver, Colorado, has been in Silver City, New Mexico, closing legal details for a lease on mining property in the Wilcox District of Catron County.
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L. E. Foster, mining engineer of Silver City, New Mexico, is now working with the Field Engineering Corps, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Grant
County, New Mexico.
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W. E. Scott, Jr., mining engineer, and at one time, Engineer in Charge, for the Talache Mines, Inc., at Quartzburg, Idaho, is now with the Aspen Development Company, at Aspen, Colorado.
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George Nordenholt, formerly Superintendent of the Trinity Placers, Inc., at Junction City, California, has been appointed State Director of Natural Resources, by Governor Rolph, of California.
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T. H. Oxnam, Metallurgical engineer, of Tujunga, California, went to Silverpeak, Nevada, on March 19, to take charge of mine development, and mill test work, for the Crater View Mining Company.
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Tacoma, Washington’s favorite flying son, Lt. Harold Bromley, and who engaged in several ill-starred attempts to fly the Pacific, from Tacoma to Tokyo, is now flying gold from isolated mines in Mexico.
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A. W. ALLEN LOCATES AT PLACERVILLE, CALIF.

A. W. Allen, internationally known mining man, writer, author, and practical miner, is engaged in research work, in association with George L. H. Loram, in the Loram Laboratory at Placerville, California. Together they will complete a series of experiments in which both are interested.

Mr. Allen has travelled extensively, and his work has taken him to many of the leading mining countries of the world. He will be remembered, too, through his connection with the Engineering and Mining Journal. He was Editor of the publication, from 1927 to 1933, and as early as 1918, was Metallurgical Editor.

Mr. Allen is English by birth, and was educated in English schools. In 1902, he was granted his B. A. from the St. Johns College, at Cambridge, England, and in 1910, his M. A., from the same school. In 1902, he joined Sir Henry Wickham, “Father” of the plantation rubber industry, in biological research in British New Guinea. In 1904, he was made cyanide manager for the British Exploration of Australasia.

In 1907, Mr. Allen went into Mexico, and for three years, was employed consecutively as Metallurgist for the Paomarejo & Mexican Goldfields; Consulting Metallurgist, and later, Cyanide Superintendent for the Rio Plata Mining Company; and Consulting Engineer for the Torres Mines. In 1912, he went to Rhodesia, South Africa, where, for two years, he was Manager of the Lonely Reef Gold Mining Company, and Consulting Metallurgist for the Rhodesia Mining and Investment Company.

In 1915, he accepted a position as General Manager of the San Juan Mines, in Argentina, South America. While in that country, he did a great deal of work on the application of hydrometallurgical methods of nitrate recovery. Returning to New York City, he engaged in private consulting work for the Penyon Syndicate, duPont interests, and others.

Mr. Allen is the author of, “Mill and Cyanide Handbook,” “Handbook of Ore
Dressing,” “Recovery of Nitrate from Chilean Caliche,” and others.
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Lieut. Charles W. Ambler, Jr., former Assistant Testing Engineer, for the smelter of United Verde Extension Mining Company, at Clemenceau, Arizona, is at Silver City, New Mexico, in charge of the CCC Camp there.
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E. R. Stanley, of Reno, Nevada, Engineer in Charge, for the Apex Mining Company, Ltd., at Yerington, Nevada, has joined the Apex Petroleum Company, Ltd. His new address is P. O. Box 339, Long Beach, California.
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D. C. Sharpstone, until March 1, in charge of extensive diamond drill prospecting at Mountain City, Nevada, for large Minnesota interests, is now at Auburn, California. He may be reached at the Freeman Hotel.
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E. F. Knotts, of El Paso, Texas, has made application for associate membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He is the owner and proprietor of the Anita Custom Mill, at Guanacevi, Durango.
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F. W. Bailey, of El Paso, Texas, is employed at the Angangueo Unit, American Smelting and Refining Company, Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico. Bailey was formerly Mine Superintendent for El Tigre Mining Company, both in Mexico, and in Arizona.
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Thomas S. Carnahan, for many years Consulting Mining Engineer, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Brussels, Belgium, has returned to the United States, following the death of Mrs. Carnahan. He is located at 287 South Citrus Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
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George Fansett, mining engineer of the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson, is being assisted in the classes, in gold mining, which he is giving all over the state, by Nels Anderson, Tucson gold miner, and John Fulton, placer miner, of Prescott.
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Junior membership in A.I.M.E. is requested by Joe Friedkin, Teacher of chemistry, El Paso High School, El Paso, Texas; Edwin E. Hamlyn, Draftsman, El Paso, and by Robert C. Meaders, student Fellow, United States Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson.
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D. W. Schmitt, of the Schmitt Bros., who three years ago operated the Emancipation,, and adjacent mines, in Boulder County, Colorado, has returned to Boulder. He may be reached at 1026 Pine Street. Mr. Schmitt has, for the last year, been at Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
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Alfred Tellam has been made President of the Mines Service Company, 2301 Fifteenth Street, Denver, Colorado. This company is in the business of helping the miner to get the most for his money, in mine operation, geology, mill designing, ore testing, and assaying.
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John J. Curzon, formerly Superintendent of the Blame-Republic Mine, at Republic, Washington, has joined the staff of the Jack Waite Mining Company, operating at Duthie, out from Murray, Idaho. Mr. Curzon was, for two years, on the staff at the Premier Mine, in British Columbia.
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G. A. Joslin, mining engineer, 1200 Rives Strong Building, Los Angeles, California, has been in Northern California, since early in March, on consulting work. During the entire month of Februar, he was busy with consulting work in Nevada, and in the northern California field.
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W. B. Mershon, Sr., of Saginaw, Michigan, has been visiting in Douglas and Bisbee, Arizona. Mr. Mershon served for several years as a member of the Board of Directors, of Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and at present, retains a substantial interest in Phelps Dodge Corporation.
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J. R. Brown, recently with Fresnillo Company, at Zacatecas, Mexico, has accepted the position of Superintendent of Construction, for San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd., San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua. Mr. Brown previously was Superintendent of the Clarines Unit, for this company.
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Fred C. Conrath, of Los Angeles, will represent the Mine Equipment and Engineering Company, in Arizona, under the name Arizona Mine Equipment and Engineering Company, and will have the exclusive agency for the Spiro concentrator, in the state. He will probably make Prescott his headquarters.
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Charles E. Stewart, oil operator of Texas and Oklahoma, has recently become interested in mining, in Arizona. Years ago, Mr. Stewart was connected with mining in the Western States, and is returning due to attractive new prices for precious metals. His address is 2213 Ramsey Tower, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Tasker L. Oddie, former United States Senator, from Nevada, has accepted the presidency of the Gold Mining Association of America. The association was formed at San Francisco October 24, 1933. George W. Starr, the first president of the Association, has resigned to devote his full time to private business.
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W. W. Gibson, manufacturer of mining machinery, at 112 Market Street, San Francisco, California, has received a fourth repeat order from the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., New Guinea, for 20 Gibson Impact Amalgamators. Mr. Gibson has just returned from a trip covering Arizona, Nevada, and California, during which he visited the Boulder Dam.
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Charles D. Stark, Jr., is Superintendent of the 60-ton amalgamation-concentration mill, at the New York Mine, at Greenville, California. The mill is one of the projects being carried on by the Yellow Jacket Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd. Mr. Stark was formerly Manager of the Plumas Eureka Mine, at Johnsville, California, and more recently, of Grass Valley.
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William M. Morrison, for the past two years Superintendent of the Tacoma Smelter, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, has been transferred by that organization, to Baltimore. Morrison is a graduate of Queens College, at Toronto, Canada; a World War veteran, and in his new capacity, will be Superintendent of one of the largest refining plants in the world.
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Edward K. Pryor, metallurgist, formerly on the staff of Miami Copper Company, is now Mill Superintendent for the Humbug Gold Mines, Inc., at Hot Spring, Arizona. Mr. Pryor is a graduate of the University of Arizona, and was a Fellow at the United States Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, making a special study of the oxidation of iron solutions in open drainage, and in percolation leaching.
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The Mineralogical Society of Southern California, met at the Pasadena Public Library, on March 12, at 7.30 p. m. Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, of the University of California at Los Angeles, was the speaker of the evening. His subject was, “Visitors from Cosmic Space.” Dr. Leonard is President of the Society for Research on Meteorites.
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Luis R. Avitia, of Calle Serdan No. 85, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, is now living on his ranch, at Rebeico, Sonora, in order to direct his mining activities in that district. He is the owner of La Dicha Mine, which he is planning to explore. This mine is situated in a very picturesque section of the state, with abundant timber and water. Senor Avitia also owns the San Timoteo Mine, at Uruachic, Chihuahua, a gold-silver property, and the Santa Edwiges graphite mine.
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Charles Carlson, and Robert Banovich, won the hard rock drilling contest at Idaho, California, March 18. The problem was to drill through five and a half feet of solid granite, in the shortest time, which they accomplished in five minutes and 38 seconds. Samuel Vaughn, and P. F. Milendere, won second place, in five minutes and 42 seconds. O. C. Peterson, and George Bynum, won third place, in five minutes and 53 seconds. Prizes were $500, $300 and $200, respectively.
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W. R. Swicegood, mine operator, is returning to his home at Challis, Idaho, from San Jose, California, where he has spent the winter. Accompanying him, is W. B. Swigert, another Challis man, who has spent the winter with Swicegood, in the southern city. With C. E. Boge, these men are associated in a lease on the Ramshorn Mine, at Bayhorse, and have had men blocking out ore all winter. Milling is to begin as soon as the snow is off the ground. The ore is lead-copper, and runs very high in silver.
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H. L. Tedrow, mining engineer, has become Superintendent of the London Gold Mine, at Alma, Colorado. He will succeed S. J. Gateley, who resigned because of other business connections. The appointment is effective April 1. From 1928 to 1929, Mr. Tedrow supervised the production of big gold, silver, lead, and zinc mines, at Breckenridge, and later directed work in mines at Silverton, Colorado. In 1930, he went to Russia as consultant for the Soviet Government, and supervised operations of large copper, gold, silver, and lead mines, in the Ural Mountains. He has also spent some time in mining in Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Old Mexico.
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The following have become members of the A. I. M. E.:
Gilbert Erby Campbell, of Southgate, California, assistant to S. E. Chaney, Glen Feliz, Los Angeles, on mine examinations, for Colnevar Mining Corporation of Los Angeles.
J. A. Herdlick, General Superintendent, for the Cornucopia Gold Mines.
H. E. Lee, Research Metallurgist, Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg, Idaho.
Arthur B. Campbell, General Manager, and member of the Board of Directors of the Keystone Divide Mining Co., Grass Valley, California.
Oscar Arthur Glaeser, Safety Engineer, for the State Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco, California.
Charles A. R. Lambly, since 1930, General Superintendent of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company, at Metaline Falls, Washington.
Clyde H. Wilson, mining engineer for the International Geophysical Co., Ltd., 3520 Shaefer Street, Culver City, California.
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ENGINEER RECEIVES PATENT ON NEW TYPE OF DAM DESIGN

Charles C. Tillotson, engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, has been granted a patent, by the United States Government, for a new type of arched dam, which he has designed. He claims this construction will eliminate cracking, caused by drying out of concrete, from low temperature, or from expansion due to heat or moisture, or from compression of the dam by the load of water above it.

Officially the invention is described as follows:
“In an arched dam, a series of spaced abutments, each having a cylindrical socket in its upstream end, arches spanning adjacent abutments having cylindrical sockets in their ends and cylindrical hinge elements engaging the adjacent sockets of the abutments and arches.”

According to Mr. Tillotson, the safety of dams can be materially increased by prevention of cracking, and the cost of construction can be greatly reduced by more scientific use of materials.

Tillotson has many friends among the mining fraternity, due to his long connection with United Verde Copper Company, as Electrical Engineer for the smelter, at Clarkdale, Arizona, and with Phelps Dodge Corporation, in charge of electrical design, at the Warren Concentrator. He also served for eight years in the Engineering Department, of Montana Power Company, at Butte, Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas, a member of the American Association of Engineers, and of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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CALIFORNIA GOLD PRODUCERS DRAW UP CODE UNDER NRA

A meeting of the Gold Producers of California, was held in San Francisco, Friday, March 16, under the direction of the California Metal and Mineral Producers Association, to consider a code for the gold mining industry. It was called as a result of a telegram from K. M. Simpson, Division Administrator, of the National Recovery Administration, asking for a code for the gold-producing industry, by a substantial majority of the producers.

In attendance at the meeting, were representatives of the leading gold operations of the country, including Alaska-Juneau, Empire Star, and others. The code drawn up is expected to form the basis for drafting a national code at the New York City meeting of the country’s gold producers, on or about April 16. Members of the California committee to meet with representatives of gold producers from other states and territories at the New York meeting are: F. C. Van Deines, Vice-President of Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields; E. C. Hutchinson, President, Kennedy Mining and Milling Company; J. T. Smith, President of the Argonaut Mining Company; Errol MacBoyle, Manager of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, and Charles Segerstrom, of the Carson Hill Gold Mining Company.

Briefly, the proposed code asks for the employment of additional labor in the search for new deposits, and the extensions of existing deposits, and the mining of so-called “marginal” ores; a 48-hour week for mine labor, as essential to co-ordinated maintenance and production, in view of the number of men who must be continuously at work in keeping the mines unwatered, repairing timbers, operating dredges, mills, cyanide plants, etc.; minimum wages for surface and underground labor, for mills and other reduction plants, office and salaried employees.
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COLORADO MINING MEN STRESS NEED OF FEDERAL HELP

Colorado metal mine operators, and kindred state and district organizations, have joined in a formal request that the federal government loan the petitioning interests approximately $4,000,000, to finance the driving of a deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple Creek District, and a similar tunnel in the Leadville District. The proposed Cripple Creek Tunnel, according to survey, would be five miles long, and cost approximately $1,500,000. The length of the Leadville Tunnel would be seven miles, and cost an estimated $2,500,000.

Reporting on the present status of these major projects, Robert S. Palmer, Secretary of the Colorado Mining Association, and of the Colorado Metal Mining Fund, stated, “The Colorado Mining Association and subsidiary agencies have unanimously endorsed the Cripple Creek and Leadville drainage tunnel projects. These should not be construed as strictly mining projects, as they will be supported by a levy on the property of the district, and the indebtedness will be paid in the form of a tax, as well as a royalty, on ore produced below the present water level.

“The first ruling from Washington was slightly misunderstood and was quickly corrected by Vincent Miles, Regional Director, who stated that mining projects, properly secured, would be given the same consideration as other projects of a public nature. The state legislature endorsed these projects, and in vested mining, with a ‘public interest.’

“This attitude has been confirmed by the supreme courts of the Western States, as well as the U. S. Supreme Court itself. At the instance of the mining men of Colorado, the Governor has asked a direct ruling relative to aid for mining from PWA. Before the appeal was sent, however, Secretary Ickes advised Senator Costigan that if the mine drainage district law was valid there would be no doubt as to the two projects coming within the scope of the act. Thus, as soon as the legality is determined, the exact status of the two projects will be decided.”

John T. Joyce, Commissioner of Mines, for Colorado, and who is making a careful study of proposed aid for various mining projects, when interviewed said, “I note that the Gold Mining Association of America, now headed by Tasker L. Oddie, is urging the federal government to allocate $100,000,000 to promote rehabilitation of the nation’s metal mining industry; also, that the Mining Association of the Southwest, at Los Angeles, has made a similar plea. Both propositions are logically sound and the requested appropriation should be made without unnecessary delay, and I believe will be.

“Assuming that any agency of the government supplies $100,000,000 to aid the metal mining industry of 12 Western states, based largely upon the expansion of gold-silver operations, Colorado occupies a most favorable position. Briefly, Colorado can use to economic advantage $10,000,000 of federal funds, to further its output of the two money metals, divided thus: $4,000,000 for drainage tunnels, $4,000,000 for modern reduction plants, $1,500,000 for retaining dams, and $500,000 for placer mining projects.

“Colorado placer mines have yielded more than $30,000,000, and with proper equipment to work thousands of acres of practically virgin placer ground, the total yield of former years would be far exceeded.

“All operators admit that the state lacks facilities to cheaply treat its millions of tons of medium and low-grade complex ores, hence the urgent need of, say two, up-to-date smelters, and a number of strictly modern concentrating mills.”
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY GOLD MINES JOIN GOLD MINING REVIVAL

A decided revival of interest in gold mining is manifesting itself in the Banner-Julian District, of San Diego County, California. E. P. Barclay, mining engineer, associated with Keith Scott and Ray Campbell, of Los Angeles, has consolidated the North and South Hubbard Mines, Ready Relief, Redman, and Hidden Treasure Mines, at Banner. At present, 25 men are employed, and regular shipments of gold are being sent to the mill, and of concentrates to the smelter. A winze is being sunk through ore, and the ore hauled out through drifts and tunnels, and railed along the mountainside, to the mill. There it is put through a simple concentration, and amalgamation process. Thus, development is self-sustaining. A new camp and mill are being planned.

Sidney Dodge, of Julian, has leased the Eagle Mine, from A. P. Frary, and his flotation plant is under construction. Five stamps have been installed.

South of Julian, the old Harper property is being reopened. It is said that a two-stamp mill paid for all development work that has been done on this mine. It is at present owned by Sarah Harper.

High-grade ore is being milled on the Quayle property in the Laguna District, and owned by the Quayle Bros., with offices in the Spreckles Theatre Building, in the city of San Diego. Two shifts are employed. Some of the ore is said to run as high as $5,000 a ton.

The Noble mines, also in the Laguna District, are said to have been taken over by Colorado men. Several men are working on the old Ellis Mine, in the Laguna District, getting milling machinery in condition. Ore running as high as $75 a ton, is reported being mined from the 300-foot Level.

According to J. B Current, 4802 Utah Street, San Diego, this summer will see a mill built on the Melba Mining Company’s property in the Laguna District. Mr. Current is Manager of Operations. The property includes ten claims, of which a portion is patented.

Charles Keiser, 431 Twelfth Street, San Diego, is arranging for the development of his extensive holdings in the Laguna District. He is one of the largest single mine owners on the Pacific Coast, and has properties in both the U. S., and in Mexico.
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WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE BROUGHT BY HAAS TO NEW MILL POSITION

With the re-opening of the Presidio Mine, of American Metal Company, after a shutdown of more than three years, a number of new men have joined the company’s organization. Among them is M. C. Haas, who will serve as Mill Superintendent. He brings to his position a wealth of experience, gained in four different countries.

Immediately upon his graduation, in 1924, from the South Dakota State School of Mines, with a B. S. degree in metallurgy, he joined the International Smelting Company,at its Tooele, Utah, Division. There, he served as Junior Metallurgist working in the ore-dressing laboratory, where all research work problems were handled. This included gravity and flotation concentration, and cyanidation testing. At the end of one year, he was promoted to assist the Superintendent of Concentration, having charge of the Ore Dressing Laboratory. The following year, he acted as Concentrator Metallurgist, with full responsibility for metallurgical results from the company’s 1,000-ton selective lead-zinc-iron custom flotation mill.

In 1927, he joined the Spokane Silver and Lead Company, at Custer, South Dakota, as Mill Superintendent, for a 100-ton lead-silver flotation mill, leaving there, to accept a position as Flotation Superintendent, with the Treadwell Yukon Company, Bradley, Ontario. During this period, there was constructed a 250-ton mill to serve as a pilot mill, to develop a treatment method, and to determine the type of equipment that could be adapted to best advantage, in a subsequent large tonnage plant. This ore was a low-grade copper-lead-zinc, of a highly complex character, from which were produced selective concentrates of each of the minerals mentioned.

The next year and one-half, were spent with the American Smelting and Refining Company, in Mexico. His first work was at the company Angangueo Unit, in Michoacan, where he supervised the construction work necessary for the revision of the existing gravity mill, into a selective flotation concentrator. After the completion of this, he took up the duties of Concentrator Metallurgist, and had charge of all testing work for the Southern Mexico Division. This necessitated extensive research along the lines of roasting, followed by cyanidation of the calcines, as a method of recovering the silver from its concentrates, in an attempt to eliminate freight, and smelter charges.

For two years, May 1930 to May 1932, Haas acted as Consultant for the Soviet Government, in the revision and operation of two gravity concentrators, treating tungsten ore, did consulting work on copper-zinc properties, and had personal charge of a 600-ton cyanide plant treating gold ore. His duties included the instruction of the workers and mechanics, as to the proper operation and maintenance of all milling equipment (all of which was modern American equipment), and the instruction of the technical staff as to their duties in the operation of such a plant.

Because of the possible advantages offered by introducing flotation, as a method of increasing the ratio of concentration of the material to be treated by cyanidation, and the results of preliminary test work on a number of local ores, he was given a special commission to go to the government laboratories, at Moscow, to continue work along that line. He later returned to the property, and installed a 75-ton pilot mill, to serve as a test unit for treatment of the different ores from that district, to determine their amenability to the amalgamation-flotation process, followed by the cyanidation of flotation concentrates. As a result of the successful completion of this work, plans were made to introduce that method of treatment.

Haas returned to the United States, in 1932, and since that time, has been located at Whitewood, South Dakota, until taking over his new duties at the Presidio Mine, Shafter, Texas.
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WESTERN GOVERNORS PASS RESOLUTION ON COPPER

Although the primary object and thought of the Conference of Western Governors, held in Salt Lake City, on March 12 and 13, was to consider, and make recommendations to Congress, on the silver question, Governor B. B. Moeur, of Arizona, presented a resolution on copper which was unanimously endorsed by the eleven governors in attendance.
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MINING ASSOCIATION HEARS NORRIS OF CORPORATION DEPT.

At the March meeting, of the Mining Association of the Southwest, Byron Norris, Engineer of the California Department of Corporations, assured members that the department does encourage the development of mines. He further stated that of recent mining permits issued over 80 percent were for the purpose of procuring capital for prospecting, or developing, mines.

Norris described in detail, the engineering requirements for qualifying mining enterprises, before the department. The chief essential, he said, is a report from a mining engineer who has visited the property for which the capital is sought. Reports should be accompanied by location maps, details of geology, lists of samples and assays, assay maps, particulars of purchase contracts, and measurements of any development work done. All of these particulars are not required from mere prospects or surface showings, for which a limited amount of development capital is sought. When permission is sought for raising capital to erect a mill, the amount of ore developed, its value and an estimate of working costs must be given.

The Association discussed the possibility of holding a mining exposition in August, in connection with Los Angeles Market Week. Announcement was also made of a series of new classes in mine administration, and elementary gold mining, to be started at the University of Southern California, April 2, 1934.
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DECEASED

Lee Burklin, old time mining man and prospector, died at the Martin Nursing Home at Caliente, Nevada, following a prolonged attack of stomach trouble. He was born at New Windsor, Illinois.
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P. T. Vail, Chief Chemist, for the Hayden Smelter, American Smelting and Refining Company, Hayden, Arizona, died on March 5, after an illness of two weeks. Vail joined the Hayden staff,16 years ago, coming from Kansas City.
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George MacBoyle, passed away at the home of his son, Errol, at Grass Valley, California, the morning of February 28. Errol MacBoyle is General Manager, of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, at Grass Valley. Another son, Joseph, resides at Banning, California.
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George J. Carr, for many years, prominent in dredging operations in the Western States, passed away, at Avon, Montana. Mr. Carr was native of Oroville, California, but for several months had been Superintending the construction of a large dredge, for the Yuba Gold Fields, at Avon. He was 60 years of age.
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Edward M. Sparhawk, since 1901, Manager of Sales, for the United States Steel Corporation, at Denver, Colorado, passed away. He was a native of Philadelphia, coming to Denver, with the Carnegie Steel Company, about 44 years ago. Mr. Sparhawk was an Episcopalian, Rotarian, and member of the Denver Athletic Club.
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Augustine M. Starrett died at his home in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Starrett went to Alaska in 1896, and played an important part in the Gold Rush. He was one of the very first to fight his way over Chllkoot Pass, between Skagway and Dyea. He has been a resident of Seattle, since 1900, and at the time of his death, he was Treasurer of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers.
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Harry L. McCarn died at the home of his mother, in San Diego, California, on March 14. He had been ill the greater part of the last year. McCarn came to Arizona, from Denver, a number of years ago, operating the Planet Mine, and later the Rainbow and Dardanelles Amalgamated. During that period, he maintained his headquarters at Chloride, and Kingman, Arizona.

[Rehab notes: The Rainbow Mine is situated high on the side of a mountain, probably 3 miles straight line East of Chloride. Easiest modern access is by way of Windy Point Campground, via the Old road to Chloride. As the road forks continuously, just keep to the right, and you eventually wind up at the site of a massive ruin with old mine timbers typically 10-12 inches square and some to 16-18 inches square.

There is extensive high grade (by modern standards) on the dump, though a lot of the ore has a sulphide streak throughout, yet the gold and silver combination is brassy looking, lending one to mistake it for fool’s gold. On one hike to the site with a church group, I found a nice boulder and broke it up so that everyone could have a piece; some of which kept theirs; others, not. In the small fragment (about 3-4 inches in diameter) that I kept, I got out over 1 ounce of gold after crushing it and panning it out. I took it to church and showed it to the brethren; some who were happy they kept their piece; other dismayed they did not.

This isn’t a place to go without a good 4x4, as the road is best taken from top to bottom, instead of the other way around. Scenic, lots of old mines, Chloride produced a wide variety of minerals (specific in one mine, different in another), and specimen crystals and such.

It’s a wonder the Canadians haven’t arrived there, being some of the most tenacious mine developers on the planet (given as a positive compliment).]
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Richard L. Colburn, mining broker, of San Francisco, and widely known in mining circles in the west, died at his home in Los Altos, California. Mr. Colburn was a charter member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, and since 1910, a member of the San Francisco Mining Exchange. He was a pioneer of the Goldfield District in Nevada, and at one time, a partner in the famed Gold Top Mine.
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Carl F. Schader, graduate mining engineer, and member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, met his death in an auto accident, at Palo Verde, Arizona, on March 8. Schader was returning to his Phoenix headquarters from California, when the accident occurred. For the last few years, he has engaged in real estate activities.
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One of Grant County’s best known pioneer mining men, Robert Lafranz, died at his home, in Central, New Mexico, March 16, following a long illness. He mined at Leadville and Cripple Creek, during the boom days, later going to Humboldt County, California. In 1894, he located at Central, as Superintendent of the old Texas Mine. He also had charge of the Philadelphia Mining Company, and the development of the San Jose.
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Frank P. Cavanah, mining man of Boise, Idaho, died in a local hospital. He was born in the South, came to Idaho in his youth, and entered mining. His work took him to most of the leading mining fields in the Western States, and into Mexico. Mr. Cavanah was, for a number of years, employed in the U. S. Assay Office, at Boise, and for a number of years, was Engineer for the Delamar Mining Company, and others, in Idaho. During recent years, his work brought him in contact with some of the large copper interests of Arizona.
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Homer O’Connell, for 30 years, a resident of Tonopah, Nevada, and active in mining there, was shot to death in a Reno barroom. Gerald Casey, a prospector, shot him on an old grudge. Mr. O’Connell was born in Nebraska. He came to Tonopah when the camp was booming, and got work as a Shift Boss at the Tonopah Mining Company’s Mizpah Mine. Later, he became Foreman of the West End Mine, and later, of the company’s Mabel Mine, at Garfield. Just before his death, he had arranged for a lease in the West End Mine, and was preparing to start work.
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DR. THOMAS B. BRIGHTON

Dr. Thomas B. Brighton, Professor of Metallurgy, at the University of Utah, passed away, March 5. He had been ill with pneumonia, less than a week.

Dr. Brighton was born in Salt Lake City, in 1887. He received his B. S. from the University of Utah, in 1918, and his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees, from the University of California, in 1916 and 1917, respectively. He began work as a weigher, in the Highland Boy Smelter, at Murray, and in three years, worked up to the position as Chief Chemist. For one year, he was in charge of the chemical laboratories of the Utah Copper Company.

Dr. Brighton was a member of the American Chemical Society, the A. A. A. S., Utah Academy of Science, and the A. I. M. E. He was a member of many honorary
fraternities.
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FRANK J. McGANNEY

Frank J. McGanney, former Manager of the Salt Lake territory of the Hercules Powder Company, died suddenly of heart failure, at Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 12. He had been associated with the explosives industry from March 1, 1897, until his retirement from business, in March, 1931.

Mr. McGanney was born in Yuba County, California. He studied at the Sacramento Institute, and at St. Mary’s College in Oakland. His first business venture was hydraulic mining.

In 1897, he became a salesman for the California Powder Company, and later represented the duPont Company, in Mexico City, Japan, China, and Manila. When the Hercules Powder Company was organized, he was placed in charge of sales, in the Salt Lake District.
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STUDY, And be FREE from the BONDS of IGNORANCE!

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THE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 30, 1935

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

H. O. Howard, Auburn mine operator, has been examining gravel properties in the vicinity of Redding, California.
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Tom Burke has been promoted as Mill Superintendent, for the Beebe Gold Mining Company, at Georgetown, California.
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Milner Hawkins, engineer and geologist, has moved to Redondo Beach, California. He had been at San Dimas, California.
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Charles A. Rose has returned from a trip ‘round the world. He is making headquarters at Hotel Embassy, San Diego, California.
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Guy H. Hague, for some time active in Southwest mining, has gone to the Philippines. He is with the Suyoc Consolidated Mining Company at Baguio.
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Milburn R. Gregory, of Tonopah, Nevada, is stated to have good showings in his claims at Sand Springs, about 18 miles southwest of Goldpoint, Nevada.
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Winton C. Clark, and Albert C. Clark, began shipments of ore to the Ohio Mill, from their property at Gold Mountain, in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
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L. S. Overpeck, mining engineer, has returned to his home at 340 Carroll Park Street, Long Beach. He had been at the Bellview Mine, at Sonora, California.
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Roswell Prouty, mining engineer and geologist, has moved from 907 National City Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, to 1205 Pacific National Building.
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Miles S. Milward, until recently with the Milkmaid Mine, at French Gulch, California, has joined the staff of Cia. Minera Los Reyes, Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico.
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Geo. A. Brigge, former Mine Foreman, for Tajo Mines, Rosario, Sinaloa, is a patient at the Helen Lee Sanatorium, 2725 East Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona.
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H. W. Evans, General Superintendent of the Balatoc and Benguet Consolidated mining companies, in the Philippine Islands, has been visiting friends in El Paso, Texas.
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Philip E. Doerr, a graduate of Colorado School of Mines, Class of 1927, has joined the Smelter Department staff, of Asarco Mining Co., Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Cecil R. Walbridge, 1515 Baseline, Boulder, Colorado, is assayer for the Slide Mines, Inc. Walbridge was graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with the Class of ‘29.
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W. A. Wilson, University Club, 136 East South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, recently returned from the East, where he stopped at New York, Washington, and St. Louis.
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F. H. “Bert” Walker, for several years, active in affairs of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, has been elected to the presidency. He succeeds the late A. F. Coffin.
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G. Townsend Harley, geologist with New Mexico Bureau of Mines, Socorro, New Mexico, has been elected to membership in the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
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Silas M. Kobey has accepted the position of Mill Metallurgist, for American Smelting and Refining Company, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. His address is Apartado 63.
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FRANK M. SMITH RETIRES AS BUNKER HILL SMELTER DIRECTOR

Frank M. Smith, for many years, Smelter Director of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Company, has announced his retirement from that position. Smith became Assistant Smelter Director for this concern, in 1919, and the following year, was made Director. Prior to this, he had been connected in the same capacity with the American Smelting & Refining Company, at East Helena.

After Smith had been graduated from the Columbia School of Mines, in 1889, and had served a year with the U. S. Geological Survey, he went to Pueblo, Colorado, where he was employed as Assayer, and Assistant Superintendent of the Colorado Smelting Company, until 1893, when he joined the staff of the U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining, at Great Falls, Montana. In 1901, he became Assistant Manager, Utah Department, American Smelting & Refining Company; being made Smelter Director of the East Helena plant, in 1905.

Smith was Vice-President of the Northwest Lead Company, in Seattle, from 1920, to 1930, at which time he was elected President, an office he has held since. It was also in 1930, that he was madeMmetallurgical Engineer for the Treadwell Yukon Company, of San Francisco.

He is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Northwest Mining Association, and numerous other clubs and associations.

It is understood that the Bunker Hill Company has decided not to fill the position of Smelter Director at this time, due to the conditions of the lead industry. Smith, however, will be retained by the company in an advisory capacity, and will continue his residence in Spokane.
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Henry McCarthy, of Pueblo, Colorado, was elected President of the Big Ten Mines, Inc., which owns the Corsair, and other claims, in the Creede Mining District of Colorado.
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Amado Chapa, former engineer for Cia. Minera y Molinera de la Baja California at Ensenada, is now a member of the staff of Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo.
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Morton Macartney, of Washington, D. C., Chief Engineer, of the Division of self-liquidating loans, on gold and silver mines, being made by the RFC, was in San Francisco recently.
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Virgil E. Reedy, is in charge of mining at the Big Gold property, at Randsburg, California. The mine is being operated under a 20-year lease, to Patrick Spillane, veteran mine operator.
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C. W. Fleming, of Silverton, Colorado, is in charge of operations, at the Pride of the West Mine, an old time producer, which is now being operated by A. W. Harrison and associates.
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I. M. Charles, formerly an officer in the firm of Douglass, Corey & Fisk, Inc., at Trinidad, Colorado, has moved to Walsenburg, and established the engineering offices of Fisk & Charles.
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O. W. Willey, of Georgetown, Colorado, has taken a lease on the Blair Mine, on Leavenworth Mountain, Clear Creek County, Colorado, and is said to be putting the mine in shape for operation.
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J. L. Cadogan, General Manager of Compania Minera El Potrero, S. A., has returned to Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico, to resume his duties, following an extended stay in a Los Angeles hospital.
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Harley A. Sill, consulting engineer of 1011 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, has just completed an examination of the Kane Mine, near Chloride, Arizona, and outlined a development program.
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A. Lee Almy is employed as Chief Chemist and Metallurgist, at the mill of Peru Mining Company, Deming, New Mexico. Almy was a graduate of the New Mexico School of Mines, Class of ‘29.
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Fred B. Wilder, mining engineer with the Arnold Exploration Company, Ltd., 812 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, has made a trip to the old town of Harrington, in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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A. W. Fahrenwald, Professor of Metallurgy and Ore Dressing, at the School of Mines, University of Idaho, Moscow, has been appointed permanent Dean, of the School of Mines, succeeding Dr. Finch.
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W. H. Rowe, who, with H. F. Halley, worked out a gold recovery device, which has been patented, is now in Ashland, Oregon, supervising the manufacture of the machine at the Ashland Iron Works.
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Robert Lenon has rejoined the staff of Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Bisbee, Arizona. Recently he has been Assistant Engineer with the government forces, of the All American Canal, at Yuma, Arizona.
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Robert Hendricks, Superintendent of the Empire Mine, of the Newmont Mining Corporation, at Empire, Ontario, Canada, has spent some time in the Grass Valley-Nevada City area of California, recently.
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S. H. Brady, Reno, Nevada, mining engineer, is the engineer for the newly-incorporated Silver State Mines Company of Nevada. C. D. Terwilliger, of Loyalton, California, is also connected with the company.
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H. J. Horsewill, of Oakland, formerly Research Chemist, for Oliver Filters, has taken a position with the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, at Grass Valley, California. He will work in the Flotation-Cyanide Division.
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John H. Eggers, mining engineer, 2086 San Jose Street, Alameda, California, has been inspecting the Hanchette Securities properties, in the Silverpeak District, in Nevada. He made the trip with Lewis Hanchette.
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Earl S. Hastings, Jr., has assumed charge of the Pioneer Gold Mining Company, Kingman, Arizona, succeeding J. Carton Bray, General Manager. M. C. Richardson remains as Mine Superintendent, at Chloride.
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Charles B. Kirch, geologist for the Imperial Development Company, operating the Railroad Springs properties, 45 miles south of Goldfield, Nevada is now being addressed at Box 455 Goldfield, instead of Silverpeak.
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V. V. Clark has returned from a placer mine examination, on the Rio Bayano, Republic of Panama. His address is 108 East St. Vram St., Colorado Springs, Colorado. Clark was accompanied to Panama, by C. C. Coulter.
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BALLMER LEAVES NEVADA CONS. TO OPEN CONSULTING OFFICE

Gerald Jacob Ballmer, since 1929, geologist for the China Division, Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation, at Santa Rita, has opened offices at Bayard, New Mexico, and will engage in the consulting practice. Since his graduation from New Mexico School of Mines, in 1925, with a B. S. degree in geological engineering, Ballmer has been steadily employed at the China Mines, first as engineers helper, then as Assistant Mine Engineer, and finally, as geologist.

His duties with Nevada Consolidated have consisted in general geological work, surface mapping, both topographic and geological. He has been especially interested in petrography and metamorphism.
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Glenn L. Allen, for the last three years, Acting Manager of Peru Mining Company, at Deming, New Mexico, has resigned, to accept a position with Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia, at Potosi, Bolivia. He sailed from New York, on March 16.
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N. P. Grenfell, who has been associated with a number of mining companies in Mexico, and most recently with Cia. Minera y Beneficiadora de Inde, Cieneguilla, Durango, is now located at 597 Black Street, Silver City, New Mexico.
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J. W. McDonald, is Superintendent of the Slide Mines, Inc., which is developing the Slide and Horsfal properties at Goldhill, Colorado. Joseph H. Rodgers, 1781 Holly Street, Denver, has been Manager of the property, since last spring.
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J. W. Wade, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Vice-President, and General Manager of the Tintic Standard Mining Company, recently inspected the Blue Point Gold Mine, at Smartville, California, which his company has been working the last two years.
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R. W. Senger, Superintendent of the Garfield plant, of A. S. & R., at Garfield, Utah, flew to Chile, in the middle of March, to attend to some business connected with his company. He returned the middle of April, via New York.
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Andy Ruf, of Goldfield, and his partner, Gustav Hailin, report high-grade values in their Santa Fe claims, at Goldpoint. The claims, which adjoin the Ohio Mines Company holdings, will be developed further before true values can be determined.
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W. M. Benham, of Mina, Nevada, recently completed an examination of the old Rileyville Mine, near Unionville, in Pershing County, Nevada, now under lease to Gossi & Hunter, of Rochester. Benham was accompanied by his associate R. E. Reed.
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T. H. Oxnam, of the Southwestern Engineering Company, in Los Angeles, is at Deer Lodge, Montana, where he is supervising the installation of a 100-ton mill at the Emery Mine, which is being operated by George Tweedy, of Deer Lodge, and associates.
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Philip ArgalI, since 1928, Manager of Peru Mining Company, Deming, New Mexico, has resumed active duties after a two-year sickening

leave. During his illness, company activities were directed by Glenn L. Allen, who is now in Bolivia, with Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia.
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Robert K. Miller, Chief Chemist at the Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company, at Silverton, Colorado, is now with the Santa Barbara Unit, of the American Smelting & Refining Company. He may be addressed c/o Cia. Minera Asarco, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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W. M. Plummer has been elected President of Scott Lode Mines, Inc., succeeding G. W. McMillan, who has sold his interest in the company. The Scott Lode claims are located near Quartzsite, Arizona, while company offices are maintained at Blythe, California.
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E. A. Julian, of San Francisco, has been appointed agent for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and will pass on all claims for loans on mining property. Mr. Julian is a widely known mining engineer. At the present time, he is receiver for the Wingfield properties, in Nevada.
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Alan Kissock, mining engineer and Vice-president of Climax Molybdenum Company, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, spent several days recently, in Virginia making examination of mineral property. Accompanying him was Marshall Haney, mining engineer of Geer, Virginia.
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Henry M. Thronclsan, well-known mill builder, and operator, of the Northwest, will take charge of milling operations at the Idaho Motherlode Gold Mines, Inc., operating near Murray, Idaho. The company recently announced plans to increase the capacity of the 100-ton mill.
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W. F. Garner, General Manager, Sunset Gold Fields, Inc., Box 561, Silver City, New Mexico, has just made a trip to Prescott, Arizona, investigating the general possibilities of placering there, with an outfit similar to that in use by his company, near Lordsburg, New Mexico.
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Robert W. Olinger, consulting engineer, is directing the development of the Zavaleta Gold Mine, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, new financial interests backing the project. Olinger maintains his home at Calle Prado Sur No. 820, Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico, D. F., Mexico.
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W. E. Scott, Jr., is General Superintendent, of the Russell Gulch Mining Company, at Central City, Colorado, which operates the Pittsburgh-Notaway, and other claims. The company’s 200-ton mill, is treating both dump, and newly-mined ore, concentrates going to the Leadville Smelter.
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Leslie K. Goforth, assayer and surveyor, of Silver City, New Mexico, has announced that he will open a branch assay office, at Lordsburg, New Mexico. J. J. Jones, former Chief Chemist, with Chino Mines, Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation, at Hurley, will be in charge of the branch office.
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Alberto Terrones Benitez, who served one term as Governor of Durango, and who has held important offices with the Federal Government in Mexico City, has opened offices at Calle Tacuba No. 92, Mexico City, for legal consultations and representations, specializing in mining matters.
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Cornelius Murphy, of Reno, Nevada, has leased mining property in the Jamestown District, of Nevada, 85 miles southeast of Goldfield, in Nye County, from Carl Fuetsch, of Reno, and Joe Fuetsch, Goldfield. The ground is said to be opened by a 22-foot shaft, which will be un-watered by the new operator.
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Robert Lora, Metallurgist for the Southwestern Engineering Company, 4800 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, is at the Eagle Shawmut Mine, at Chinese Camp, California, putting the cyanide plant installed by the lessees, in operation. The plant will treat tailings, accumulated there many years ago.
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S. Power Warren, metallurgical engineer, and for more than ten years, on the staff of the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, is now associated with the Hughes-Mitchell Processes, Inc., 20201 South Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, California. His personal address is 209 Gaylord Apts., Torrance, California.
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Hugh R. Van Wagenen, Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, is in charge of work as consulting engineer, at the Matt Kane Mine and mill, at Manhattan, Nevada, which were recently taken over by a Los Angeles group. Development work is going forward under the superintendence of Harold W. Stotesbury.
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David McMiIlan, of Colville, Washington, was elected President of the newly formed Northeastern Washington Mining Development League, at a recent meeting at Marcus, where 800 leading mining men of the region, participated. The association is attempting to bring about a better understanding, between mine owners and mine operators.
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R. S. Baverstock, chemist and assayer, of 552 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, has returned from an extensive professional trip. It included mines at Caborca, Sonora, Mexico; and mines in the Beowawe-Winnemucca District of Nevada. On the latter, he accompanied Canadian capitalists, and Engineer C. M. Hauselman.
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Alfred B. Sabin recently joined Gold-acres, Inc., as Manager, and is now at Beowawe, Nevada. Sabin was formerly Superintendent of the Yellow Aster Mill, at Randsburg, California. At one time, he was Mill Superintendent of the El Tigre Mining Company, in Mexico, and later practiced consulting engineering, with offices at Lander, Wyoming.
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L. T. Gaines, of Los Angeles, California, has joined the staff of the Mountaineer Mining Company, at Vidal, California, as Mill Superintendent, where he will have charge of the new flotation mill. Mr. Gaines is well known through the Southwest. He was formerly flotation man with the Old Dominion, Shattuck Denn, Chino Copper, and the Cananea Consolidated.
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Announcement is made of the resignation of Webb Smith, for 25 years Superintendent for the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company. Ill health was given as the reason for his action. Mr. Smith was a prominent figure in the mining world. He is largely responsible for the Kennedy Mine being one of the leading gold producers in the state. William Sinclair, formerly Foreman at the Kennedy Mine, has been promoted as general superintendent.
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Walter J. Heim, metallurgical chemist and assayer, is now with the Elephant Eagle Mining Company at Mojave, California. Mr. Heim is a graduate of the Lane Technical School of Chicago, and has had many years’ experience in mining in Arizona, Mexico, Nevada and California. He has specialized on cyanidation and flotation problems, and has done some experimental work in the field of hydrometallurgy. His home address is 1420 ½ Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles.
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Charles Lintecum, Box 405, Tonopah, Nevada, is said to be planning a leaching plant in which to treat the old mill tailings from the Bonanza King Mine, at Lovelock. Lintecum has been milling dump ores from the Coalition, Kindergarten, Fairview, and Florence mines, of the Nevada State Metals, Ltd., and also newly-mined ore from the Signal Peak Mine, under lease to Lester Munn and L. E. Mann. Lintecum’s lease on the mill and dumps expired January 1, 1935.
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C. H. Carmichael, former operator of the Plymouth Mine, in California, and for years, engineer with the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, has been appointed Engineer for the Gold Exploration Mining Company, operating the Blue Point Gold Mine, at Smartville, California. Recently, Mr. Carmichael has been at Grass Valley, associated with C. I. Cook, E. W. Ellis, and A. B. Campbell, in the treatment of the McDonald tailings, on the North Star Mine. He succeeds L. J. Sundeen, who has gone to the Philippines.
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Alexander S. Wyner has accepted the management of the San Juan Ramsey Company operations, at Incline, California. During recent months, he has been touring Nevada, California, and Mexico. The San Juan Ramsey is operating the Ferguson, and Original Mines, owned by the Original Mining and Milling Company. Its home office is Suite 430, 50 Congress Street, Boston. Mr. Wyner is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, a member of the American Institute, and in 1928, was Research Metallurgist, for the American Smelting and Refining Company, at its Globe Plant, in Denver.
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A number of important announcements have been made in connection with the Big Horn Mining Company, at Valyermo, California.

David D. Baker, Mining Engineer, for the company, has been appointed Consulting Engineer for the company, and will make his headquarters at 912 Quinby Building, Los Angeles.

George W. Worthington, formerly General Superintendent of the Yellow Pine Company’s operations, at Stibnite, Idaho, has been appointed Superintendent, of the Big Horn.

Oscar H. Hershey, geologist, 924 Crocker Building, San Francisco, has recently made a geological study of the property, as a guide to further development.
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P. W. Wickham, of Landusky, Montana, Manager of the Little Ben Mining Company, has been proposed for membership in the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. At the same time, the Institute announced the change from student associate, to junior membership, of the following:
John Charles Curtis, assayer and engineer of Reno, Nevada;
William P. Given of Sunburst, Montana, employed in the office of the International Refining Company;
Walter A. Hamilton of Butte, statistician and member of the Mineral Resources Committee
and Thomas W. Page, III, of Victor, Colorado, who is employed as geologist and engineer by the Colorado International Mining Corporation.
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ADVISORY BOARD DESIGNATED FOR THE U. S. BUREAU OF MINES

Twenty-nine leaders of the mining, and allied industries, have accepted invitations from the Secretary of the Interior, to act as an advisory board to the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The purpose of the Board is to advise the Director of the Bureau, Dr. John W. Finch, on matters of bureau policy, affecting relations with the industry. National leaders of labor organizations were asked to serve on the board, in view of the vital interest of workers in the bureau’s activities, designed to improve health and safety conditions.

The first meeting of the group was held in Washington, on April 15, with 22 members in attendance. After a brief statement by Dr. Finch, outlining the organization and functions of the Bureau, the Board elected Howard N. Eavenson as Chairman, and Julian D. Conover as Secretary. The chairman was authorized to appoint five committees to study various details of the bureau work, and prepare recommendations for future consideration.

The following is the list of members of the Board, together with the phase of the industry which they represent:

Coal Producers
James P. Williams, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President of National Coal Association;
Lewis E. Young, Pittsburgh, Vice-President of Pittsburgh Coal Company;
Louis C. Madeira, III, New York, Executive Director, Anthracite Institute;
Cadwaller Evans, Jr., Scranton, Pennsylvania, General Manager, Hudson Coal Company;
Eugene McAuliffe, Omaha, Nebraska, President, Union Pacific Coal Company,
and D. S. Hanley, Seattle, Washington, Vice-President, Pacific Coast Coal Company.

Mining Employees
John L. Lewis, Washington, D. C., President, United Mine Workers of America;
A. D. Lewis, Washington, D. C., United Mine Workers of America;
William Green, Washington, D. C., President, American Federation of Labor,
and Thomas H. Brown, Butte, Montana, President, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

Oil and Gas Field Workers
H. C. Fremming, Washington, President,
and John L. Coulter, Washington Secretary-Treasurer, International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery Workers of America.

Copper Industry
Cleveland E. Dodge, New York City, Vice-President, Phelps Dodge Corporation.

Silver, Lead and Zinc Industries
H. A. Guess, New York City, Vice-President in charge of mining, American Smelting and Refining Company,
and Frank M. Smith, Kellogg, Idaho, Smelter Director, Bunker Hill Smelter.

Non-Metal Mineral Industries
Otho M. Graves, Easton, Pennsylvania, President of General Crushed Stone Co.

Mineral Policy and Government
Dr. C. K. Leith, Madison, Wisconsin, Professor of Geology, University of Wisconsin.

Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
Howard N. Eavenson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

Liaison; Representative for Mining Industry in General
Howard I. Young, St. Louis, Missouri, President,
and Julian D. Conover, Washington, D. C., Secretary, American Mining Congress.

Iron and Steel Industries
Thomas M. Girdler, Cleveland, Ohio, Chairman of the Board and President, Republic Steel Corporation.

Petroleum Industry
Amos L. Beaty, New York, Vice-President, and member Executive Committee, Phillips Petroleum Company.

Axtell J. Byles, New York, President, and W. R. Boyd, Jr., New York, Executive Vice-President, American Petroleum Institute.

Gold Producers
Errol MacBoyle, San Francisco, Gold Producers Association of America.

Gas Industry
Frank L. Chase, Dallas, Texas, Operating Manager, Lone Star Gas Company.
J. D. Creveling, New York, advisory council, American Gas Association.

Explosives and Research
J. Thompson Brown, Wilmington, Delaware, Vice-President, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.

Health and Safety Appliances
John T. Ryan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vice-President and General Sales Manager, Mine Safety Appliances Company.
E. W. Bullard, San Francisco, California, President, E. D. Bullard Company.
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BURDETTE F. GRANT BECOMES SUPT. AT STONE CABIN MINES

Burdette F. Grant, a Michigan mines man of wide experience, has been appointed General Superintendent, of the Stone Cabin Consolidated Mines, Inc., replacing W. W. Harritt, who is now Superintendent for the Mine Properties Corporation, operating the Amazon Mine, at Kelsey, California.

Grant received his early mining experience in Minnesota and Michigan, having graduated as a mining engineer and bachelor of science, in 1902. In 1907, he was Chief Engineer for the Palmarejo & Mexican Gold Fields, Ltd., operating in Mexico, and after other activities there, he went to Arizona, around 1913. A year or so later, Grant opened consulting offices in Los Angeles, and in 1927, while retaining his mining interests, became an engineer for the City of Los Angeles.

In describing the work at Stone Cabin Consolidated, at Dayton, Nevada, he says that the 500-ton milling plant, which is being completed, grinds to 10 mesh, separating the sand and slimes, and handles the sand by cyaniding, and the finer production, by flotation. Later the flotation concentrate is sent to the cyanide tanks. The Fahrenwald flotation cells, and the Merrill-Crowe cyaniding process, are used.

The mining operations on the 200-foot vein of low-grade gold ore, are to be handled by glory hole methods.
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Deceased
Gustav Dresel, member of the Board of Directors of Negociacion Minera Santa Maria de la Paz y Anexas in Matehuala, S. A., died at his home in Mexico City, on April 8.
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Pete Bielich, 74, passed away at the Mine Operators’ Hospital, Tonopah, Nevada. For 30 years, he had followed mining in the Delamar, and Austin camps, coming to Nye County eight years ago.
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John Casey, 78, an early day miner, in the Silverton District of Colorado, died April 1. Casey served as Mayor and Alderman of Silverton, and was later a member of the City Council of Durango. He was a native of County Mayo, Ireland.
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William Brown, veteran mining man of the Deerlodge and Fay Mining Districts, in the Pioche area of Nevada, was found dead in his cabin March 31, 1935. Investigations are alleged to show that Brown made careful preparations, and then ended his own life.
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August Dierks, 77, who has followed mining in the Idaho Springs District, of Colorado, for the past 45 years, died April 6, 1935, in the Clayton Hotel, in Denver. Among his many mining interests was the Dierks Tunnel, now renamed the Bruce Tunnel, and operated by the Bruce Consolidated Mines Company.
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The death of William L. Robins, 42, occurred on April 2, at Pinos Altos, New Mexico, the result of a heart attack. Robins was a native of Pinos Altos, and had engaged in mining most of his life, holding some important positions in this country and Mexico. He had recently been called to Mexico to take a position as mine foreman.
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Jason M. Libbey, 55, died at his home in Tucson, Arizona, on April 9. Although recently associated with the Pima County Highway Department, Libbey had been active in the mining industry in Arizona, and Nevada, for many years. He was formerly Superintendent of the Silver Hill Mines, Inc., of Arizona United Mining Company, and with Keystone Copper.
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William Parnell Curley, who was in charge of the United States Steel Corporation’s manganese mines, in Brazil, died, the first of April, in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, following an emergency operation. His body was brought to Negaunee, Michigan, where burial took place. Curley was a native of Negaunee, and a graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology. His brother, Mike Curley, Manager of the New Cornelia Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Ajo, Arizona, attended the funeral.
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J.C. Kemp van Ee, pioneer San Francisco, died following a brief illness, March 30. Mr. Kemp van Ee came to San Francisco in 1867, and established himself as a leader in mining and railroad enterprises. He was controlling stockholder of the Oro Rico Mining Company. Since 1933, he had resided in Southern California. His son, J. C. Kemp van Ee, Jr., is President of the California Mining Association, and Secretary of the California State Mining Board, at Los Angeles, California.
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Albert J. Seligman, President of the Butte Copper & Zinc Company, of Montana, and well-known retired New York banker, died April 15, 1935, at the age of 76. Seligman was interested in Montana mining, and also owned the Diamondfield Daisy Gold Mine, in Nevada [about 15 miles east of Goldfield, NV], operated by a company of the same name, of which he was President. He retired from the banking firm of Seligman and Meyer in New York, about eight years ago, in order to devote more time to the Butte Copper Company, whose properties are now under lease to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
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Chester A. Hoatson, 42, consulting engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, took his own life, on April 17, pulling the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun with a miner’s double-jack. He was found by neighbors, who heard the shot, that pierced his heart. Hoatson, a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, had been employed in the past by several of Arizona’s largest mining companies, including the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the Phelps Dodge Corporation. At the time of his death, he was Vice-President of Belmont Copper Company. Despondency over mining conditions is said to have been the reason for his act. His body was shipped to Calumet, Michigan, for burial.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for MARCH 30, 1937

Mining Men and Their Activities
About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

M. D. Hill, Jr., is now with the Pacific Mining Company, at Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California.
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W. H. Wilson is directing the work of Cia. Minera Las Animas, S. A., Apt. 11, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico.
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J. L. Anderson, of Spokane, Washington, has been appointed Secretary, of the Ham and Eggs Mine, at Virginia City, Montana.
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Claude Ferguson, mining engineer, Manager for the Veraguas Mines, Ltd., Colon, Panama, has been visiting in Nevada City, California.
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C. H. McLean, of Okanogan, Washington, is Superintendent of the Rise and Shine Mine, in the old Ruby District, where a tunnel is being driven.
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J. H. Elkington, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, who owns six placer claims in Idaho, has come west, and is making headquarters at Kooskia, Idaho.
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James J. Delaney, 2506 Pine Street, San Francisco, is engaged in operations in the Slumbering Hills area, of the Awakening District, Humboldt County, Nevada.
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Gustav A. Dahlke, formerly of Grass Valley, California, is now Junior Mining Engineer, with the Cia. Minera Choco-Pacifico, Andagoya, Colombia, South America.
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Charles M. Hannum, formerly Assistant General Manager of Canyon Placers, Inc., Dedrick, California, is now with the National Tool Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
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George C. Bartholomees is now located at Sheepranch, California, as Chief Engineer, for the St. Joseph Lead Company, which is operating the Sheepranch Mine.
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M. W. Kroll, inventor of the Kroll electric amalgamator and separator, has left Billings, Montana, and is making headquarters in Minot, North Dakota, receiving mail at Box 619.
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M. B. Mills, former mill foreman for Humboldt Mines, Inc., at Mayer, Arizona, has left for Manila, Philippine Islands, where he will join the staff of Opisso and Company, Inc.
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Heath Steele, Vice-President of American Metal Company, 61 Broadway, New York City, has just returned from an extended trip to his company’s properties, in Mexico, and the Southwest.
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C. E. Nighman, well-known mining engineer, has been appointed Superintendent of the Jardine Mines, at Jardine, Montana, succeeding Newton W. Emniens, who is reported to have resigned.
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Lewis Leroy Huelsdonk, Resident Manager of the Ruby Mine, Forest, Sierra County, California, has been proposed for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR WESTERN MINING MEET

HOWARD I. YOUNG, President of the American Mining Congress, has announced the annual meeting of the Western Division of the Congress, which will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 6 to 11, 1937. Oscar N. Friendly, Vice-president and General Manager of the Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company, 1003 Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake, is President of the Western Division, which represents the mineral producers of the Western States.

Guy N. Bjorge, General Manager of the Homestake Mining Company, at Lead, South Dakota, will be Chairman of the Program Committee, and very shortly, announcement of the various other committees will be made. In the meantime, local arrangements have been started by Friendly.

W. J. O’Connor, Manager of the Utah Department of the American Smelting and Refining Company, is Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements.
James Ivers, General Manager of the Silver King Coalition Mines Company, is to be in charge of the Committee on Entertainment.
J. O. Elton, of the International Smelting and Refining Company, will arrange for tours.
The Welcome Committee is headed by J. W. Wade, Vice-president and General Manager of the Tintic Standard Mining Company.
G. W. Snyder, Vice-president of the W. S. Snyder and Sons Company, is to take care of publicity.
J. D. Shilling, Assistant to the General Manager of the Utah Copper Company, is Chairman of the Exposition Committee.
The annual dinner will be arranged by a committee, headed by E. A. Hamilton, General Manager of Mines of the U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining Company; and W. Mont Ferry, Vice-president and Managing Director of the Silver King Coalition Mines Company, is to be Toastmaster.

A. G. Mackenzie, Secretary of the Utah Chapter of the American Mining Congress, is to be General Assistant.

Mrs. Oscar N. Friendly is to serve as Official Hostess, and a special ladies’ committee will be appointed, with Mrs. A. G. Mackenzie as Secretary.

The convention and exposition will be held at the Minerals Building, at the State Fair Grounds. Further details will be released in the near future by Julian D. Conover, Secretary of the American Mining Congress, who is to make a trip to the Western mining districts, in the early part of the summer.
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C. J. Scheuermann, who has been at Round Mountain, Nevada, as Assistant Assayer, at the Nevada Porphyry Mines, has returned to California, where his address is 1714 San Antonio Avenue, Alameda.
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Ernest Win. Ellis, consulting mining and metallurgical engineer, formerly associated with the Carlyle Mining Company, at Twentynine Palms, California, is now with the Engineering Equipment and Supply Company, Thirteenth Street, Port Area, Manila, Philippine Islands.
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Jean M. Peters, Mine Manager of the Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, and associated with other companies operating in Idaho, moved to Osburn, from Elk City, Idaho, last October, and intends to make his headquarters in that city.
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Raymond L Brown, who recently returned from two years spent with Chile Copper Company, has joined the staff of Phelps Dodge Corporation, Jerome, Arizona. Brown is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Class of 1929.
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L. N. Jamieson is Manager of Minas de Occidente, S. A., which is operating El Favor Mine, under lease. The property is located at La Quemada, Jalisco, Mexico. Jamieson is the former Purchasing Agent, for The Tigre Leasing Co., S. A.
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Lloyd S. Fickes, formerly of Los Angeles, California, has recently joined the staff of the Itogon Mining Company at Baguio, Philippine Islands. He has been engaged in mining work for the past 16 years, working in California, Montana, and Idaho.
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William B. Maitland, formerly of 559 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, left the latter part of November, for Manila, making the trip on the “China Clipper.” He is now Assistant Superintendent and Geologist, of Crown Mines, Inc., Baguio, P. I.
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Junior membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, has been proposed for Roger K. Kirkpatrick, Oroville, California, engineer and geologist for the Forbestown operations of the Idaho Maryland Mines Corporation.
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J. P. Cooney, formerly of Chloride, Arizona, is now with Keeler Gold Mines, Inc., Keeler, Inyo County, California. The company is engaged in reconditioning its mill, for the purpose of handling custom ore. The plant will have a capacity of 50 tons daily.
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C. W. Van Law, who has been at Anaconda, Montana, with the Hidden Lake Venture, Inc., of which he is President, is now making headquarters at Buckhorn, via Palisade, Nevada, where he is doing professional work for the Buckhorn Mining Company.
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J. Owen Ambler, who has been with Rio Tinto Company, Ltd., at Huelva, Spain, is visiting in the United States. Ambler resigned as Superintendent of the Copper Queen Smelter, Phelps Dodge Corporation, in 1932, to accept the appointment with Rio Tinto.
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D. I. Hayes, Chief Mining Engineer and Western Manager of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company, who has been making a trip through the mining sections of Arizona, has returned to his headquarters at West 1905 Second Avenue, Spokane, Washington.
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J. McLaren Forbes, formerly of Superior, Arizona, and Donald R. McLaren, formerly with Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, at Inspiration, Arizona, have joined the staff of Opisso and Company, Inc., mine managers and operators in the Philippine Islands.
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C. N. Shaffer, Superintendent of the Castle Peak Quicksilver Mining Company, with holdings near Virginia City, Nevada, and in charge of operations at the Nevada Tungsten Corporation, Gardnerville, Nevada, recently moved from Gardnerville, to the Parkway Hotel, Reno.
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T. S. McDougal, of Wasilla, Alaska, has been spending some time in Phoenix, Arizona, and plans to visit in the East, before returning to Alaska, the latter part of April. He is operating the Fern Mine, 24 miles north of Wasilla, under lease from the Fern Gold Mining Company.
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Richard Addison Hanan, 369 Pine Street, San Francisco, President and General Manager of the Vermillion Syndicate, operating the Culver Baer Mine, in Sonoma County, California, has been proposed for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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Col. Fred Bowler, 610 North Sixth Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, left for Denver, early in March, to confer with Emile Brazzier, and J. B. Gilliam, regarding the purchase of the Sundown Claims, that the Denver men are taking over, to be operated by Alto Arizona Gold Company.
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T. St. H. Acland, Arizona Hotel, Oatman, Arizona, has taken the position of Cyanide Solution Man, at the new Goldroad Mill, of United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company. He was formerly Chemist for South American Development Company, at Portovello, Ecuador.
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L. T. Gaines, who has been associated with the Weepah Nevada Mining Company, in charge of sampling and testing, at Tonopah, Nevada, is planning to locate somewhere in Southern California, near Los Angeles. His home address is 2963 ½ West Fourteenth Street, Los Angeles.
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Robert E. Landon, Consulting Geologist and Engineer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is directing the mining operations of the Tennessee Mines, Inc., and the American Eagle Gold Producers, Inc., with which is combined the Western Leasing and Mining Company, all in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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Ed Lindenau, Superintendent of Minas Pampa Grande, owned by Mauricio Hochschild & Cia., Ltd., Bolivia, South America, has returned to his station after three months spent in the Southwest visiting friends. Lindenau formerly was with the United Verde Copper Company, at Jerome, Arizona.
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I. A. Weaver, 200 Central Building, Everett, Washington, President of the Bunker Hill Arizona Mining Company, was in Phoenix, Arizona, early in March, to attend the annual meeting of his company. He later spent some time at the mine at Sombrero Butte, where milling equipment is being installed.
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Frank A. Crampton, of Crampton and Crampton, engineers, has moved to the Hollingsworth Building, 606 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California, where his firm will be associated with the PenhoelMenardi Engineering Company, Ltd., in the exclusive distribution of the Dickson automatic clutch.
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L. E. Putnam, Superintendent for the Beebe Gold Mining Company, operating the Beebe and Alpine mines, at Georgetown, California, has returned from a month’s vacation, spent in South America. During his absence, S. L. Sampson, mining engineer and Assistant Superintendent, was in charge at the property.
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George E. Gemmell has been promoted to the position of Mill Superintendent at the Octave Plant, of American Smelting and Refining Company, Octave, Arizona, succeeding Bruce Matthews, who was transferred to the company’s Swansea operations. Gemmell has been Shift Foreman at the Octave Mill, for the last two years.
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Charles H. Miller, who has been at Barranquilla, Colombia, South America, expects to leave about April 1, for the United States. He plans to spend some time in New York, and will also stop off at Washington, D. C., Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles, before returning to San Francisco.
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Albert Mendelsohn, General Superintendent of Mines, for the Copper Range Company, in the Michigan copper district, has resigned, and will leave the first of April, for Mexico, where he will become Assistant General Manager, for Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Mendelsohn has been with the Copper Range organization since 1912.
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H. Victor Burgard, Consulting engineer, has been retained by New York capitalists, to merge and develop extensive Mother Lode properties, and he will maintain offices at Sonora, California. Burgard has recently completed pilot plant operations, at 100 tons daily, on a large Ione Conglomerate, near Campo Seco, California, and operations there have been stepped up to 500 tons daily.
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Arthur L. Eagles, of Houghton, Michigan, is visiting in Bisbee, Arizona, after an absence of several years. Engles was at one time, Master Mechanic for Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation, and before that, served in a similar capacity for Calumet and Arizona Mining Company. He later worked in the Miami District, leaving there in 1928, to join the staff of the Copper Range Mining Company, at Houghton, Michigan.
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Ted Overton, formerly of the Mackay School of Mines, at Reno, Nevada, who recently returned from the Philippines, is conducting a short course in prospecting, in Reno, under the jurisdiction of Chauncy Smith, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the direction of Don Cameron, Director of Vocational Education. A similar course is being given at Winnemucca, with Percy S. Gardner, who has been giving instruction in the Wells-Elko District, in charge.
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Change of status from Student Associate, to Junior Member of the A.I.M.E., has been proposed for John William Judy, Crockett, California, chemist at the Selby Plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company. Change of status from Junior Associate, to Member, has been proposed for Mark Lintz, 1643 Russ Building, San Francisco, General Superintendent of the Western Barium Corporation; and for Bonn Lee Raiff, Selby, California, Metallurgist and Assistant Superintendent of the Selby Smelting Works, of A. S. and R.
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Edward A. Dyer, who has been employed in the Milling Department of the Treadwell Yukon, Ltd., at Tybo, Nevada, since July, 1934, is now Mill Superintendent, replacing Hugh W. Coke, who is on a leave of absence, engaged in metallurgical work at the Idaho-Maryland Mines, Forbestown, California. Dyer, a graduate of the University of Nevada, came to the Treadwell Yukon Company, in 1934, as a mill operator. In the fall of 1935, he was promoted to Chief Chemist, which position he held until this recent change. The company has resumed operation of the 300-ton flotation plant.
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Charles Ellison MacQuigg, who has been affiliated with the Union Carbide and Carbon, and the Electra-Metallurgical Companies, has been selected as Dean of the School of Engineering, of the Ohio State University. His appointment follows a canvass, by a committee of faculty and alumni, in which 65 names were considered.

MacQuigg was graduated from Ohio State, in 1909, and was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad, and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, before joining the Staff of Penn State, as head of the Department of Metallurgy, in 1913. He served in this capacity until our entrance into the World War in 1917. After the Armistice, he became affiliated with Union Carbide. He will assume his new duties at Ohio State July 1.
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COPPER TARIFF BOARDS BUSY IN WESTERN STATES

Governors of the copper-mining states are appointing state copper tariff commissions to work toward extension of the excise tax on imports of foreign copper.

Governor Henry H. Blood of Utah has appointed A. G. Mackenzie, Secretary of the Utah Chapter of the American Mining Congress, with offices in the Kearns Building, Salt Lake, as Chairman of the State Commission, a position which he held during the 1935 campaign.

Other members of the board are Harry S. Joseph, mining engineer, Hotel Utah, Salt Lake; John M. Wallace, mining man, with headquarters in the Walker Bank and Trust Company, Salt Lake; A. S. Brown, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake; and C. T. Van Winkle, consulting engineer, Dooly Block, Salt Lake. With one exception, this same group was also active in this work in 1935.

In Wyoming, Governor Miller named a copper tariff board consisting of Charles B. Stafford, Capitol Building, Cheyenne; H. L. Kuykendall, of Encampment; and Dr. S. H. Knight, of Laramie, State Geologist. This is Wyoming’s first effort toward the retention of the copper excise tax.

The board appointed by Governor Kirkman, of Nevada, consists of Alfred M. Smith, Chairman of the Nevada section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Reno; John A. Fulton, Director of the State Bureau of Mines, Reno; W. H. Blackburn, Manager of the Nevada operations of the Treadwell Yukon Company, Ltd., at Tybo; Henry M. Rives, Secretary of the Nevada Mine Operators’ Association, Reno; and Ott F. Heizer, General Manager of the Nevada-Massachusetts, Inc., at Mill City. This is the same group that worked for the passage of the copper excise tax in 1935.

Of the Arizona commission, appointed by Governor R. C. Stanford, Sam Morris of Morris and Malott, Globe, is the only member who served during the last campaign. He is again acting as Chairman. Other members of the 1937 board are: Cleve Van Dyke, of Miami; Hoval A. Smith, 2838 North Seventh Street, Phoenix; John G. Flynn, Manager of the Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation, Bisbee; and Lin B. Orme, President of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association.
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PLATINUM MEDAL AWARDED TO A. L. BLOMFIELD OF CANADA

T HE platinum medal of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, was awarded to A. L. Blomfield, March 16, in Montreal. This medal was established in 1933, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the nickel industry in Canada, and is awarded from time to time “as a mark of distinction and recognition to the person who has made a meritorious and practical contribution of outstanding importance to the mining and metallurgical industry of Canada.”

The medals are described as being discs of pure platinum, three inches in diameter and weighing 14 ounces each [worth about $31,000 US Dollars each, as of Feb 2008]. The design was made by Dr. Tait Mackenzie, noted Canadian sculptor.

Blomfield, who has held his present position in Northern Ontario, since 1933, was born in Australia, in 1879, and is a graduate of the Engineering School of Melbourne University. Beginning his career as a mining engineer in the Great Cobar copper mine, in Australia, Blomfield served Bewick Moring and Company, on various gold properties in Western Australia. His success in treating complex and difficult ores led to his being called to this country, where he practiced at Cripple Creek, Colorado. Later he went to Chihuahua, Mexico.

Returning to Colorado, Blomfield was employed for 17 years as Superintendent and Manager, of the Golden Cycle Mill, at Colorado Springs, and General Manager of the Cresson Gold Mine, in the Cripple Creek District. It was during this period that he developed the tray thickener and bowl classifier, now used in gold fields the world over.

After working in Arizona and California, Blomfield returned to his native Australia, expecting to retire and live on his ranch, but in 1933, he accepted his present position, and went to Canada.
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DOMESTIC AND WORLD GOLD PRODUCTION IN JANUARY

JANUARY production of gold in the United States has been reported at 328,000 ounces, as compared with 369,000 ounces, in December, while world production of gold, in January, exclusive of Russia, totaled 2,361,000 ounces, as compared with 2,405,000 ounces, the month before. During January 1936, world production of gold amounted to 2,154,000 ounces.
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ASSOCIATION GIVES AWARDS FOR SAFETY AND HEROISM

OUTSTANDING acts of heroism on the part of employees in the mining industry were recognized by the bestowal of awards, by the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, at its annual meeting, held in Washington, D. C. The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, named in honor of the first director of the United States Bureau of Mines, is closely affiliated with the bureau.
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Ray Eames, a miner in the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, was awarded a gold medal for risking death, in a dynamite blast in June, 1936, by remaining to aid a fellow worker, whose foot was pinned under a rock. Eames had barely extricated the man, when the blast went off. While both were injured, they were able to retreat far enough to escape the main force of the explosion.
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Stanley Jarrett, G. H. Merritt, and H. E. Merritt, employed by Six Companies, Inc., San Francisco, California, were awarded gold medals for aiding in the rescue of a fellow workman pinned under timbers, in a cave-in, at the West portal of the Broadway Tunnel, on February 22, 1936. For about one and one-half hours, these men worked at great risk.
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Lawrence Shaw (deceased), Farr, Colorado, lost his life in the fire in the Cameron Mine, Farr, Colorado, on May 8, 1935, in helping other men escape from poisonous gases. Shaw made more than a dozen trips through dense smoke, for a distance of 400 to 500 feet each time, helping others to escape. When all the men were out, he started to walk up the slope, and fell dead. A bronze medal was awarded.
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Twelve other individuals employed in Eastern and Mid-Western sections of the country, and in the petroleum and coal mining industries, as well as the metal mining industry, were also presented with awards. In addition, the association awarded certificates of honor for extraordinary safety, to 33 coal mines or mining companies, to 21 metal or non-metallic mineral mines or mining companies, to 6 petroleum
organizations, to 8 cement organizations, and to one other organization.

Of the certificates of honor awarded to mines and mining companies, Miami Copper Company, Miami, Arizona, was the only Western metal mining company, to which one of the certificates was presented.
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DECEASED
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Jack Welsh, 31, an employee of the Mountain Copper Company, died at his home in Eldorado, California, February 20, following an attack of pneumonia.
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Francis C. Morehouse, 71, mining engineer, and native of Salt Lake City, Utah, died March 2, 1937, in Los Angeles. Morehouse was active in the Bingham District during the early days.
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George Coates, 51, formerly a lessee in the Cripple Creek, Colorado, mining camp, died February 18 in Denver. A native of England, Coates came to Bisbee, Arizona, in 1905, and to Colorado, in 1911.
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John Shay, 71, Gold Hill, Nevada, mining man, died recently at his home. A native of County Claire, Ireland, Shay came to this country as a child, and went to Nevada, at the time of the Goldfield rush.
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Carl W. Ross, who devoted his early career to mining, and who made his home in Denver, Colorado, was found dead in an El Paso, Texas, hotel, February 18, from a gun shot wound, said to be self-inflicted.
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C. W. Platt, pioneer Arizona mining man, died in Atolia, California, the first of March. He was one of the early operators in both the Tombstone and Wickenburg districts, and served as Superintendent of the old Monarch Mine, about 30 years ago.
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Norman L. McDonald, who had been working on his mining holdings in the Winkelman-Hayden District, for the last five years, died on March 3, at Globe, Arizona. He was a former student at the University of Arizona, and had operated in South America, before locating at Winkelman.
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Frank G. Willis, 69, a pioneer of the Spanish Peak region of Colorado, and the man who staked out the Townsite of Victor, Colorado, died at his home in Baxter Springs, Kansas, where he had lived since failing health forced him to leave the high altitudes some 18 years ago. For many years, he was active in the Cripple Creek District.
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George W. Riggs passed away suddenly, January 28, at his home in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was associated with the Mine Safety Appliance Company of Pittsburgh, and was a recognized authority on mine safety, and mine rescue operations. As a former employee of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, he had worked extensively in the United States, and had visited Canada and Mexico.
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A. J. Warren, 52, mining and civil engineer, died in Spokane, Washington, after an illness of several months. Warren was employed as surveyor for a railroad, near Lewistown, Idaho, and later became interested in mining properties. Several years ago, he and associates acquired holdings in the Elk City District, now being operated by the Elk-City Gold Mines, Inc., of which his son, A. J. Warren, Jr., is President.
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T. B. Sturdivant, 35 years old, was slain by robbers, who escaped with the mine payroll of approximately 2,600 pesos. Sturdivant had managed the operations of the Trigo Mining Company, owned by the Cananea Cattle Company, for the last four years. The mine is located about 20 miles from Yecora, Sonora, in the heart of the Sierra Madres. The ore is moved almost 100 miles by burros, before it can be placed aboard modern means of transportation.
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Louis D. Rasor, oldest United States Mineral Surveyor in Southern California, from the standpoint of continuous service, died in Los Angeles, March 4. He was 62 years old. For the past 25 years, Rasor had practiced his profession as civil and mining engineer, and United States surveyor, in Los Angeles, except for the period of his enlistment in the United States Army, during the World War. He was a brother of C. M. Rasor, Vice-president of the Pacific Coast Borax Company.
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Alfred C. Ware passed away at his home in Wellton, Arizona, on March 9, of silicosis of the lungs. Ware came to the United States in 1891, and worked in the mines in Michigan, Montana, California, Nevada, Colorado, and also in South America. During the World War, he served in the Mare Island Navy Yards, Panama, and New Jersey. For 14 years, he was employed by United Verde Extension Mining Company, in Jerome, Arizona, resigning his position as Mine Foreman, in 1935, because of ill health. More recently, he has been interested in the development of the Black Rock Gold Claims, in the Quartzsite District, of Yuma County.
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MARK LAWRENCE REQUA

Mark Lawrence Requa, mining engineer, of 536 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, California, died March 6, at Los Angeles, of complications, which followed an operation. He was 70 years of age, and was well known as an outstanding leader in political and civic affairs, and in mining. He served as Republican National Committeeman for several years.

Requa was born at Virginia City, Nevada, December 25, 1866, and was educated in private schools and under tutors. He was the son of the late Isaac Requa, who for many years, was a Comstock mining executive.

He played an important part in the early development of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, and later served as consulting engineer for the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Following this work, he built the Nevada Northern Railroad. During the war he served as assistant to Herbert Hoover, as Food Administrator, later being made General Director of the Oil Division of Fuel Administration. This latter work led him into a campaign against waste of petroleum resources, in which he took an active part during most of his later life.

His political career included management of the Hoover presidential campaign in California, in 1928, and direction of the Hoover campaign in the West, in 1932.

Requa was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and of the American Petroleum Institute. He was the author of two books, the “Relation of Government to Industry,” and a novel, “Grubstake.”
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1938

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.
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A. W. Harris, of Tucson, Arizona, has joined the staff of Cia. Minera Las Animas, S. A., Apartado 11, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico.
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James M. Rice, who has been operating the Dan Tucker Mine, Fallon, Nevada, under lease, has moved to 1233 Brerton Way, Oroville, California.
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R. J. McEwen, geologist and engineer, has joined the staff of Klau Mine, Inc., Paso Robles, California. He was formerly located at Grizzly Flats, California.
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J. W. McDonald, Box 772, Prescott, Arizona, is directing diamond drill tests, at the Copper Hill property, located in the Copper Basin District of Yavapai County, Arizona.
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G. E. Richardson, of Atlantic City, Wyoming, is Manager of the Crow’s Nest Mine, in Fremont County, near Atlantic City, which A. N. Boche and associates are operating.
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Alex Paterson has been named Foreman of the machine shops, at the Clarkdale Smelter, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Clarkdale, Arizona. He was formerly Master Mechanic, at the Clifton Smelter.
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Robert B. Dickson, field engineer, for the American Metal Company, Ltd., who has been engaged in general exploration work in Cuba, has returned to New York, where he is addressed at 119 East Fortieth Street.
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E. H. Lord is reported to have been named Manager of the Mineral Mountain Mining and Milling Company, which is resuming development, and sinking operations in the Evolution District, near Kellogg, Idaho.
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W. H. Wise, 639 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, President of the Gold Dust Mining Company, was a recent visitor in the Oatman, Arizona, District, for the purpose of attending to mining interests.
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James Tucker, of Granite, Oregon, is in charge of testing operations, for the Western Gold Corporation, of Boise, Idaho, which has two gold dredges operating under contract, on its properties in the Boise Basin, of Idaho.
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J. K. Brooke, of Portland, Oregon, who returned from the Argentine, a few months ago, where he had been employed since 1935 by the Cia. Minera Aguilar, in the province of Jujuy, is now working for the Chelan Unit of the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington.
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Robert L. Spence, of Monrovia, California, formerly Assayer for the Hayden Hill Gold Corporation, at Adin, California, left recently for the Philippine Islands. He has accepted a position with the Surigao Consolidated Mining Company, at Surigao, on the Island of Mindanao.
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ARTHUR SWANSON IS NAMED SUPERINTENDENT AT ZEIBRIGHT

ARTHUR SWANSON has been named Superintendent of the Zeibright Mine,
Emigrant Gap, California, succeeding the late Berthel Berthelson. The Zeibright is one of the properties of the Empire Star Mines Company, Grass Valley, California, and is under the management of Robert Hendricks. Swanson was formerly manager of Cia. Minera Zacatecana, S. A., at Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico, a position he held for two years, prior to joining the staff of Empire Star.

Born at Ironwood, Michigan, in 1894, he spent his early youth in British Columbia, later moving to Idaho, where he received his high school and college education. He was graduated from the University of Idaho, in 1926, with a B.S. in mining engineering. Between high school, and college days, he worked with Granby Consolidated, and Canada Copper, in British Columbia, and also spent three years in Ecuador, with the South American Development Company.

Following graduation, he returned to Ecuador for two years, acting as Mine Superintendent, for the South American Development Company. In 1928, he accepted a position as General Superintendent of Pend Oreille Lead and Zinc Company, at Metaline Falls, Washington, leaving there in 1930, to go to Russia, as a Consulting Engineer, for South Caucasus Non-Ferrous Metal Trust.

In 1932, he took over the management of Los Lugos Gold Mines, Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, and in 1935, went to the Butte Highlands Mining Company, Butte, Montana, as Manager. Late in that year, he joined the staff of Cia. Minera Zacatecana, S. A., as Manager, resigning from that position, to assume his new duties at the Zeibright.
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N. M. Muir, of the Orpha May Mining Company, at Cripple Creek, Colorado, is now in San Francisco, where he receives mail, in care of F. O. Williamson, 912 Hobart Building. Muir recently completed an examination of a hydraulic placer mine in Trinity County, California.
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James W. Bucklin has resigned as Director and General Counselor, for the Vera Mines Corporation, and Judge E. D. Reiter, has been appointed to succeed him. The company operates properties at Kennett, California, and maintains offices at 427 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California.
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Walter B. Rogers, has been appointed Mill Superintendent, of the Gold Hub Mines, Inc., which recently started operations in the newly equipped 50-ton Yukon Mill. Rogers was in charge of milling for the Tomboy Gold Mines Company until operations were suspended. He is receiving mail at Silverton.
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F. J. Bartels, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, has accepted a position as Superintendent of the Mother Lode Central Mines, Inc., Angels Camp, California. He is President of the Bartels Mining Company, at Cottage Grove, owner of the Champion Mine, now under lease. He expects to return to Oregon early next spring.
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Louis S. Cates, of New York, President of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, has been visiting the company’s holdings in Arizona, Mexico, and New Mexico. In commenting on the copper situation, Cates declared that the upward progress of the industry will depend largely upon other industries experiencing an upturn.
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Ben F. Snider, of Alma, Colorado, is examining a placer proposition, near Wickenburg, Arizona. He has closed down his placer property at Alma for the winter, and is temporarily located at Santa Paula, Sunny Slope, via Cave Creek Stage, Phoenix, Arizona. His partner is remaining at the property at Alma.
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Dr. Arthur L. Day, Director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D. C., has been elected President of the Geological Society of America, succeeding Dr. Charles Palache, of Harvard. Dr. Palache was awarded the Robbling Medal, of the Mineralogical Society of America, during the convention of the Geological Society.
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William A. Beaudry has been re-engaged as Superintendent of the Alabama Mine, of Alabama-California Gold Mines Company, Auburn, California, effective December 30, 1937. He succeeds R. W. Loyd. Beaudry was formerly Manager, of the Alabama-California company, but resigned May 1, 1937. He is at present leasing and operating the Three Star Mine, at Auburn.

R. O. Oscarson, 423 West First Avenue, Spokane, Washington, has been elected president of the Northwest Mining Association. He has various mining interests in Washington and British Columbia. Other officials for the coming year are: James F. McCarthy of Wallace, Idaho, vice-president; Storey Buck, treasurer; A. W. Buis. man, secretary; and Charles P. Robbins, trustee.
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Dean G. M. Butler, of the University of Arizona, College of Mines, Tucson, Arizona, is making a seven-state tour of student chapters, of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He will speak to groups in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. He will also visit the Texas School of Mines at El Paso, and the New Mexico School of Mines at Socorro.
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Otis Miller has been placed in charge of the newly opened office, of the Western Machinery Company, at Spokane, Washington. In addition to an office, they will have complete warehouse and shop facilities, and carry a regular line of mining, milling, and contracting machinery. They will also represent Ingersoll-Rand, and handle the rental, as well as the sale, of I-R equipment.
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Jesse F. McDonald, 354 Humboldt Street, Denver, Colorado, was re-elected President of the Colorado Mining Association, and the Colorado Chapter of the American Mining Congress. All other officers were also re-elected: Edward P. Arthur, of Cripple Creek, Vice-president; Shrive B. Collins, of Creede, and Denver, Treasurer; and Robert S. Palmer, of Denver, Secretary. Offices are at 402 State Office Building, Denver.
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Wylie L. Graham, rope and tramway engineer, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is in Bolivia, South America, doing consulting work for a large mining company. He made the entire trip by plane, from Salt Lake, to La Paz, a distance of 6,700 miles, requiring six days. Graham reports that the last lap of the journey from Chile, at sea level, to La Paz, at a 13,500-foot elevation, was made in one hour and 35 minutes. He expects to be in New York, about the first of February, and in Salt Lake, around the fifteenth of the month.
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Fletcher W. Rockwell, who has been in the employ of the National Lead Company, for over 40 years, was recently elected President, at a special directors’ meeting. He had been holding the position of Vice-president, and Production Manager. F. M. Carter, who has been on a leave of absence during the past year, resigned.

Rockwell is the son of Fletcher W. Rockwell, one of the founders and original incorporators of the company. National Lead is the parent company of St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company, of Rico, Colorado, its mining subsidiary, and owns a 50 percent interest in the Combined Metals Reduction Company of Utah and Nevada.
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Mack C. Lake, who has for many years, been employed as geologist for the M. A. Hanna Company, and who has also been employed as consulting engineer, and geologist, for other clients, has resigned as geologist for M. A. Hanna Company, at the Duluth office, and will soon establish a consulting geological and mining engineering office, in California, probably in San Francisco.

From there, he will supervise investigations and explorations relating to manganese and copper properties in the West and Southwest, controlled by the Hanna Company. Lake has had extensive experience throughout the United States and Canada in geological and engineering work, relative to the exploration and development of a wide variety of mineral products. He plans to do general mine consulting work, covering examination, exploration, financing, operating, planning, and managing of mining properties.
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HOCHSCHILD INTERESTS ANNOUNCE STAFF CHANGES

ANNOUNCEMENT of a number of staff changes in the organization, effective January 1, 1938, has been made by W. Val De Camp, General Manager of Mines, for Mauricio Hochschild, S. A. M. I., Oruro, Bolivia, South America.

At Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia, Pulacayo, Bolivia, Neil O’Donnell, formerly Assistant General Manager, has been advanced to the position of General Manager. P. H. Reagan has been named Mine Superintendent at this branch; Martin Romslo, Assistant Mine Superintendent; Jack Ward, General Mine Foreman; and Robert Matthews, Mine Foreman.

John Randall has been engaged as Mine Foreman, at Colquiri, for Cia. Minera de Oruro, while Harry Keegan has been named Mine Foreman, at the San Jose Mine, for the same company.

De Camp, who has been consulting engineer for the Hochschild interests in South America, for the past year, has just recently been advanced to the position of General Manager, and is now in general charge of the mining and metallurgical interests of the company, in South America.

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N. W. RICE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF U. S. SMELTING ORGANIZATION

THE United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company, 75 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts, recently announced the election of N. W. Rice, to the presidency of the company. He was Vice-President of the organization with which he has been associated for many years in various capacities, including that of Vice-President in charge of Western operations.

He has also held office in subsidiary, and other companies, such as the Niagara Mining Company, Montana-Bingham Consolidated Mining Company, American Star Mining Company, Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields, United States Smelting Refining and Mining Exploration Company, Hanover Bessemer Iron and Copper Company, Richmond-Eureka Mining Company, Agaura Explorations, Ltd., Sunnyside Mining and Milling Company, and the United Idaho Mining Company.

In the position of President, Rice succeeds C. A. Hight, of Boston, who has been named Chairman of the Board. Hight, who has practiced law in Boston, since 1899, having started his career in Portland, Maine, in 1892, is also connected with a number of companies associated with the U. S. Smelting Company, including the Fairbanks Exploration, Hammon Consolidated, Niagara, Richmond-Eureka, U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining Exploration, Utah Railway, and Compania de Real del Monte y Pachuca, all of which he has served as President.
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LIBERTY METALS RESUMES MINING AT TROY, MONTANA

THE Liberty Metals Company, which recently resumed operations, after a period of idleness, expects to have sufficient ore to start milling, on a three-shift schedule, about April 1, 1938. The company owns 1,400 acres, located about 5 ½ miles south of Troy, Montana, in the Grouse, and Copper Mountains, of Lincoln County. Equipment includes a 100-ton flotation mill, and a 480-horsepower Diesel-electric power plant.

North and south drifts, and raises, have opened from 30 to 36 inches of high-grade ore, and six or seven feet of milling ore, according to George N. Sellers, 2959 East Twenty-eighth Street, Kansas City, Missouri, Secretary-Treasurer. Values are in silver, lead, zinc, and in some places, gold. The zinc is said to be crystallized, facilitating separation.

On January 12, three feet of clean high-grade galena is stated to have been opened in the southeast face, with mill-grade ore filling the rest of the face. A few days later, additional work is stated to have shown the ore widening to fully six feet, of high grade.

H. E. Zimmerman of Kansas City is President, and P. J. Evans is Vice-President. Samuel B. Holbert is consulting engineer. H. J. McGlothlen, formerly of the Coeur d’Alenes, is Superintendent, at Troy.
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OBITUARIES
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Charles S. Roe, Superintendent of the Lotus Mines, Inc., operating northeast of Trona, California, died December 25, at his home in Hollywood.
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Thomas R. Ragsdale, an attorney of Las Vegas, Nevada, who was interested in the Keystone Barefoot [Goodsprings/Yellow Pine District] and Key West mines [western flank of Virgin Mountains, SE of Mesquite, NV] in Clark County, died recently.
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James W. Megson, 60-year-old prospector, was found dead on his mining claim, near Casa Grande, Arizona. He had worked the claim for 20 years.
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Clark Alvord, veteran Nevada mining man, who spent most of his time in Lincoln and Clark Counties, died January 4, 1938, after an illness of several weeks.
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J. H. Weston, President, and A. S. Groth, Vice-president, of the Union Consolidated Mining Company, died early in January, at San Francisco, California, within a few days of each other.
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Ralph H. Shaw, formerly General Superintendent, of the Enterprise Mine, at Helena, California, died November 9, in Mariposa County, California, where he had made his home for the past year.
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Alfred E. Alge, 75, pioneer Montana miner, died in Helena, recently. He went to Marysville in 1897, and was well known in Montana mining circles. His properties are controlled by the Channel Gold Mines, Ltd.
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Thomas Godfrey Davies, 54, died January 7, at Douglas, Arizona. He had been Manager of the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Store, at Douglas, for six years, and had been in the employ of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, since 1915.
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Charles T. Emerich, 58 years old, died January 4, in Long Beach, California. He was a former resident of the Globe-Miami, Arizona, District, serving as Chief Chemist, for the Old Dominion Company, at Globe, from 1917 to 1919, when he resigned to join the staff of the International Smelter at Miami.
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George Hulvey, 61, of Tonopah, Nevada, died January 5, 1938. Hulvey was a native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and went to Nevada in 1904, from Mackay, Idaho, where he had worked for several years. He was employed as hoist engineer in various Nevada mines, and had leased in the Divide, and South Gilbert Districts.
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Claude O. Newton, Mine Superintendent for Mineral Resources, Inc., Santa Cruz, Madrinuque, Philippine Islands, died, early in December. He had only been in the Philippines for a short time, having left the United States last July, to go to the Islands. Newton was a graduate of the Montana School of Mines, and was a member of the Class of 1919.
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Nels Dimmick, last survivor of the three brothers, who in 1891, discovered the famous Silver Cell Mine, near Pinos Altos, New Mexico, died January 3, at Silver City, New Mexico. In recent years, he had followed mining in a small way, and still retained ownership of the Silver Cell property, which has been inactive for some time. The mine was a famous producer of high grade, in the 1890’s.
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Michael Aloysius Lawler, 79 years of age, died January 15, at Prescott, Arizona. For more than 37 years, he had lived on his mining property, 30 miles west of Hillside, Arizona. He and his brother, John, discovered the Bagdad Mine, and John also discovered the Hillside Mine. Lawler is survived by two sons, M. J. and W. A., who are employed at Hillside Mines, Inc., the former in the capacity of Mine Superintendent.
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W. MONT. FERRY

WILLIAM MONTAGUE FERRY, 66, of Salt Lake City, Utah, died of heart disease, in a Salt Lake hospital, on January 11, 1938. At the time of his death, he was Vice-President, and Managing Director, of the Silver King Coalition Mines Company, with which he had been associated for over 40 years.

He was born in Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1871, and after a preliminary education in the public schools, and in Michigan Military Academy, he entered Olivet College, at Olivet, Michigan. Later he went to the Colorado School of Mines, where he obtained his professional degree, in 1891. Immediately after graduation, he went to Park City, Utah, a mining district that held his interest, to the time of his death.

Ferry was an outstanding spokesman for the silver mining industry. In 1924, when the American Silver Producers’ Association was formed, he was named President of the organization. He was a leader in the American Mining Congress, and active in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

He was greatly interested in the relationship between mine operators, and mine workers, and just previous to his death, he was participating in contract negotiations with union representatives. A message sent after his death, by the union committeeman with whom he was working, attested to the esteem in which he was held by mine, mill, and smelter workers.

In 1905, he started his political career, being elected to the City Council, on which he served for four years. In 1911, he was elected to the State Senate, and served until 1915, when he was elected Mayor of Salt Lake City. He stood for the highest principles in human relationships, whether it be the inter-relationships of civic life, or that of employer and employee, or producer and consumer. Further, he was an arduous and efficient worker in trying to find and maintain a practical basis for these principles.
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Mining Men and Their Activities THE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 15, 1938

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.
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Homer C. Neal has left Southington, Connecticut, for Nevada City, California.
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Edwin R. Howe, formerly of Globe, Arizona, is now located at Hurley, New Mexico.
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David H. Orr has joined the staff of Mammoth-St. Anthony, Ltd., at Mammoth, Arizona.
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Samuel P. Moyer is employed as Assayer and Engineer, for Kern Mines, Inc., Kernville, California.
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Leroy F. Shaw has accepted a position as Mill Foreman, at the Palisades Mine, Calistoga, California.
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J. T. Winny has joined the staff of the American Smelting and Refining Company, at Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico.
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James R. Needham is Mine Shift Boss, at United Paracale Mining Company, Paracale, Camarines North, Philippine Islands.
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W. C. Klein is Mill Superintendent, for the Deep Tunnel Mining Company, operating at Elizabethtown, New Mexico.
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Martin L. Plass is employed in the Metallurgical Department, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, El Paso, Texas.
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Stanley Stachura, of Silverpeak, Nevada, is in charge of work at the old Vanderbilt Mine, for the Champion Mining Company.
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Ernesto C. Bengzon is Chief of the Mining and Geological Department, of the Philippine Bureau of Mines, Manila, Philippine Islands.
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Harry C. Clemmer is employed as Mechanical, and Electrical, Superintendent, by the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington.
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Graham John Mitchell, Consulting Geologist, has returned from the Transvaal, and may be addressed at Box 783, Santa Barbara, California.
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David K. Rowand, of Helena, Montana, is one of the incorporators of the newly organized Cataract Gold, Inc., which will operate in Montana.
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T. E. Winrod is now addressed at 1648 Eightieth Avenue, Oakland, California. He is the owner of the Opportune Mine, at Downieville, California.
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Jafet Lindeberg has recently returned from a several months’ trip to Alaska, and is preparing to reopen the Greenwood Mine, at Greenwood, California.
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Sidney Jenkins, formerly of Morelia, Michoacan, has accepted a position with the Angangueo Unit, A. S. and R., at Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico.
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Richard W. Heindel is in charge of mill test work, at the plant of Benguet Consolidated Mining Company, Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippine Islands.
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C. A. Remington is now addressed at 304 East I Street, Ontario, California. He was formerly General Manager, of the Mogollon Consolidated Mines Company.
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I. E. ROCKWELL NAMED BY IDAHO MINING GROUP

IRVIN E. ROCKWELL of Bellevue, Idaho, has been elected President of the Idaho Mining Association, succeeding Stanly A. Easton, of Kellogg. Rockwell is a well-known Idaho mine operator, and has been closely identified with the development of the Minnie Moore Mines, at Bellevue, of which he is President.

Rockwell is a staunch silver supporter, and in his inaugural address, advocated international agreements to stabilize the world’s currency, and the return to “true bimetallism.” He is a former state senator, and has been mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate on the Republican ticket.

The association held its fifteenth annual convention, on March 12, in Boise. Discussions during the meeting, touched on the present cooperation between the forest service and the mining industry, as opposed to the misunderstandings of an earlier day.

Further suspension of annual assessment work on unpatented mining claims was emphatically opposed, as was the proposed reduction of tariffs on lead and zinc ores, and metals. Simplification of the requirements under the state unemployment compensation law, opposition to the present heavy tax burden, and criticism of the SEC were among the subjects taken up at the meeting.
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Herman L. Dauth, formerly General Mine Superintendent, for San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd., is now addressed at Maguarichic, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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John Robert Bovyer, formerly with the Lodestar Mining Company, in California, is now associated with the Arizona Comstock Corporation, at Virginia City, Nevada.
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Lawrence Carpenter has returned from California, where he has been during the past few months, and is at 318 South Emerson Street, Denver, Colorado.
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A. F. Flynt, of the Gold Dome Mining Corporation, at Modena, Utah, has moved to Los Angeles, where he is in Apartment 101, 303 West Fifty-ninth Place.
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James R. Evans, of Butte, Montana, recently returned to Butte, from an Eastern trip, and plans to continue his placer development work, this coming season,
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L. M. Allen is General Manager, of Cia. Minera del Cubo, S. A., Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, succeeding Max F. Quinn, who was killed December 9, at the mine property.
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C. T. Draney has joined the staff of Vetchel-McCone Corporation, Consulting Engineers, of Los Angeles, California. He is addressed at 6523 ½ Orange Street, Los Angeles.
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Leslie E. Hams has resigned his position as Construction Foreman, at the Angangueo Unit of the American Smelting and Refining Company, and is temporarily located in Mexico City.
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Robert Sherk, formerly with the Nayak Mining Corporation, has replaced Ashburton Harper as Shift Boss, at Suyoc Consolidated Mining Company, Baguio, Mountain Province, P. I.
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J. F. “Jimmie” Parr is Electrical Foreman, for the Howe Sound Company, at its Chelan Division, Holden. Washington. He was formerly Shop Superintendent for General Electric, in Seattle.
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J. Saunders, formerly Mill Superintendent, at the American Rand Corporation, near Oroville, Washington, is now employed as a mucker (pick & shovel guy), by the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington.
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Frank O. Jasmer is Mill Superintendent, for Cia. Minera de San Jose de Gracia, S. A., at San Jose de Gracia, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was formerly Mill Foreman for Cia. Minera de Maguarichic.
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Robert K. Miller has been transferred from the Teziutlan Unit, to the Angangueo Unit, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, with headquarters at Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico.
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William L. Boos has been elected a director of the Homestake Mining Company, to fill a vacancy caused by the recent death of Fred T. Elsey. Boos has been associated with the company since 1909.
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L. W. Buchanan, a member of the field and geological staff of Marsman & Company, Baguio, Philippine Islands, is engaged in prospecting work for that organization, in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia).
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Ralph Karlsten has been promoted to Shift Boss, by the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington. He replaces John MacAuliffe, who recently resigned to go to New York, where he will be engaged on a tunnel job.
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William Joels has accepted the position of Mine Superintendent, with Surigao Consolidated Mining Company, at Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. Previously, he was employed as Mine Shift Boss, by Antamok Goldfields.
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W. R. Coleridge Beadon, London engineer, who has been directing operations at the Mountain Boy Mine, near La Porte, California, will leave soon, for a trip to England. It is understood that operations will continue during his absence.
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Frederick F. Kett has been appointed General Manager of the mining operations, of the Vanadium Corporation of America, succeeding the late Charles P. Rees. Head offices are in the Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York.
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H. B. HANSON JOINS STAFF OF SAN FRANCISCO MINES

HENRY B. HANSON has been appointed General Superintendent, of San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd., at San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua, Mexico, succeeding W. J. Hill. Hanson formerly held a similar position with Cia. Internacional Minera, in Mexico, from which he resigned, to accept the new appointment.

He was born at Grafton, North Dakota, in 1895, and was educated in North Dakota schools. He spent two years at the University of Minnesota, before joining the Army in 1917. His first mining position was that of Pit Engineer with the Oliver Iron Mining Company, followed by a year as Construction Engineer with the Midwest Refining Company, at Casper, Wyoming, and a year and one-half in the same capacity, with the Standard Oil Company.

Hanson then went to Mexico, where he accepted a position as Construction and Field Engineer, with Cia. Constructora Richardson, S. A., at Esperanza, Sonora, Mexico. After one and one-half years in that post, he joined the staff of San Nicolas Mining and Milling Company, and served for a number of years as Manager of that company.
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V. V. Clark, who recently completed a contract with Marsman & Company, Inc., is remaining in the Philippine Islands for some time, to engage in consulting engineering work. His address is Army and Navy Club, Manila, Philippine Islands.
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Jack T. McCord has resigned as Superintendent, of El Toro unit, of San Francisco Mines of Mexico, San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua, Mexico, and is now addressed, in care of Sullivan Machinery Company, 117 North Kansas Street, El Paso, Texas.
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C. L. Jones is employed as Diesel engineer, in the new Worthington plant, of the Congress Mining Corporation, at Congress, Arizona. He was formerly associated with the Comstock-Dexter Mines, Inc., and prior to that, was with the Rosedale Mines in New Mexico.
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J. F. Elder, mining engineer of Newburgh, New York, is now employed on the underground staff, of the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington. He has done considerable work in South Carolina gold mines, since returning from Morococha, Peru, last spring.
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Oscar R. Lewis, of Virginia City, Nevada, recently joined the staff of the Arizona Comstock Corporation, as General Mine Foreman. Lewis is a veteran on the Comstock Lode, who has managed mine operations for various companies, and has operated on his own account. (Also an author on mining subjects.)
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Martin Mahleen, has been named Supervising Engineer, in charge of EEC mine loans, with headquarters in the Federal Reserve Bank Building, San Francisco, California. He succeeds Thomas M. Bains, Jr., who resigned recently, to accept a position as Superintendent of the Densmore Mine.
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H. P. Stokes, and A. A. Long, have joined the staff of Itogon Mining Company, Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippine Islands, as mine shift bosses. Both had previously been employed as tunnel bosses by Palidan-Suyoc Deep Level Tunnel Company, another Marsman managed project.
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Frank Hill, mining engineer, and contractor, of Silverpeak, Nevada, has been put in charge of operations at the Quartette Mine, near Searchlight, for the Calumet Gold Mines Company, which recently acquired the ground, and will start mining operations, in anticipation of mill construction.
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John N. Becker of Nevada City, California, is at Jarbidge, Nevada, in charge of operations for the Grayrock Mining Company, dominated by Newmont interests. Becker has been Superintendent of the Zeibright Mine, at Nevada City, and has had considerable experience in South African mines.
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William H. Bickel, Mill Foreman for the California Standard Gold Mines Corporation, Jamestown, California, has secured a leave of absence from that company, and has accepted a temporary position as Mill Superintendent, at the Black Hawk Mine, north of Sonora, California, operated by A. A. Irish.
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J. C. Kinnear, General Manager of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation, at McGill, Nevada, and Leonard Larson, Smelter Superintendent for the company’s plant, at McGill, are reported to have been issued final patents for a process to effect selective furnace converting of copper matte.
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F. G. Joaquin is General Superintendent, of the Macawawili Gold Mining Company which is planning a new milling plant for its property in the Baguio District. The company’s main office is located at 501 Chibank Building, Manila, Philippine Islands. Joaquin was on the staff of Itogon, for some time.
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E. C. Rice, formerly Mine Superintendent for Baguio Gold Mining Company, and more recently, head of the engineering staff of Paracale D’Oro, has joined the staff of International Engineering Corporation, a Soriano operating organization, and will be stationed at Paracale, Camarines Norte, Philippine Islands.
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William Maher, of Tonopah, Nevada, has been appointed Deputy State Mine Inspector for the Southern Division, replacing T. W. Kendall, of Las Vegas. Maher followed mining in the Virginia City District for several years, before becoming a state Highway Patrolman, the position he held before being named Mine Inspector.
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C. W. Van Law has just returned from a professional trip to northern Nevada, in the interests of the Pardners Mines Corporation. And for his own account, he is investigating a large group of mining properties in Pershing County, Nevada, on which he has an option. His address is Washoe Pines, Carson City, Nevada.
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R. W. Lottridge, mill superintendent of the Austin Silver Mining Company at Austin, Nevada, recently went to the Germania Mine, at Fruitland, Washington. The Austin Company recently suspended mine production and milling, and is carrying on a limited amount of development work. The Germania Mine is operated by the General Electric Company.
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Robert L. Spence is employed as Shift Boss, at the 200-ton cyanide plant, of Surigao Consolidated Mining Company, at Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. This plant was completed the middle of February, and is reported to be operating smoothly. Spence is another of the group of mining engineers who were passengers on the ill-fated President Hoover.
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Edmund C. Bitzer, has left the Philippine Islands, to become Metallurgist for the Raub Australian Mining Company, at Raub, Penang, Federated Malay States. Bitzer, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, went to the Philippines in 1932. At the time of accepting this new position, he was Mill Superintendent; for the Ipo Gold Mining Company, at Ipo, Bulacan.
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Edward L Young, formerly Director, of Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, has been transferred to the United States, where he will be associated with the United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company. He is being addressed at 108 Edgewood Drive, Palo Alto, California. A. B. Marquand succeeds him, at Real del Monte.
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Irwin E. Burks has been appointed Resident Engineer in charge of construction, for the War Department, and will make his headquarters at Auburn, California. He will supervise construction of the debris dams, bids on which are now being called. Burks was transferred from the Bonneville Project, in Oregon, where he was in charge of concrete work, and government construction.
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C. T. Wells, of Sacramento, and Elwin Friedman, of Rescue, California, have sailed for the Philippine Islands, where they will install the Vandercock-type recovery plant for the California-Philippines Corporation. Development of the company’s Treasure Island Mine, is being directed by Orlando E. McCraney, Pan Philippine Corporation, Soriano Building, Manila, Philippine Islands.
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H. F. Hailer, mining engineer, is employed on the underground staff of the Howe Sound Company, at Holden, Washington. Until recently, he was with the Falls Creek Mines, Inc., in Idaho, as Assistant Superintendent, and millman. Formerly, Hailer was employed as factory representative for the Rock Bit Division, of the Timken Roller Bearing Company, in the Northwest.
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H. Foster Bain, Technical Advisor on Mining, to the Philippine Government, and former Director of the United States Bureau of Mines, sailed for Japan, in March, to negotiate with Japanese interests for the sale of iron ore from the huge deposits in Surigao, which are to be worked by the government-owned National Development Company. Bain will continue on to the United States, and then plans to return to the Islands in May.
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George H. Miller has arrived in Manila, to join the staff of the Philippine Bureau of Mines. Miller has been connected with the United States Bureau of Mines for over eight years, chiefly engaged in safety work. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, and has had considerable experience in the Kentucky and Pennsylvania coal mines. Immediately before going to the Islands, he was stationed in Alaska, with headquarters at Anchorage.
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Robert H. Beck, until recently, General Superintendent of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company, at Wallace, Idaho, has returned to Bisbee, Arizona, where he was formerly employed, by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. Beck left Bisbee in 1938, when he went to Idaho to accept the position of Mine Superintendent with the Sunshine Mining Company, a post he held until 1936, when he became General Superintendent of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company.
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Walter E. Heinrichs is at present, in charge of the Carino Ansagan Goldfields, Inc. development, as Resident Engineer. This property is being developed by Benguet Consolidated Mining Company, under contract. Heinrichs, a graduate of Colorado School of Mines, Class of 1913, has been in the Philippines since 1933. He is Mine Superintendent of the Cal Horr Mine, owned by Benguet, and makes his headquarters at Baguio, Benguet, Philippine Islands.
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Charles A. Mitke, author of “Mining Methods,” arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands, March 24, on the Hawaii Clipper, to engage in consultation work for Masbate Consolidated Mining Company, the largest mining project in the Islands. He will confer with the engineers of the Soriano interests, operators of Masbate, for the purpose of improving methods, if possible, and to work out with them the most efficient and most economical system for the property.
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STUDENTS PROFFERED AID BY NEVADA MINING MAN

NOBLE H. GETCHELL, State Senator from Lander County, Nevada, for 16 years, has announced the establishment of eight $300 scholarships to the University of Nevada, for Lander County high school students, beginning with the classes of 1938, at the Austin, and Battle Mountain high schools. The scholarships will be provided for a full four-year term, with two students benefiting the first year, four the second, six the third, and eight the fourth, with a maximum contribution of $2,400 annually.

Getchell is the Vice-President, and General Manager of the Getchell Mine, Inc., north of Golconda, in Humboldt County. He has operated in Washington, Idaho, Alaska, Colorado, and Arizona, but has recently spent the greater part of his time in Nevada. He is especially familiar with the Betty O’Neal, and Gold Circle Districts where he operated until recently.

Establishment of these scholarships has long been a plan of Getchell’s, who had made provision for them to become effective upon his death. However, finding that he was able to put his plan into operation, he will provide for the first awards to be given this June.
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E. E. Whiteley, 801 South Gramercy Drive, Los Angeles, California, Mining Engineer, has recently completed some special engineering work for the Shattuck Denn Mining Company, at Bisbee, Arizona. Whiteley was formerly associated with the management of the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, at Bisbee. He spent some time in New York, during January, and also during the first half of March, on business connected with his consulting engineering work.
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Mos. E. Kelley has been appointed General Superintendent, of Paracale Gold Mining Company, Paracale, Camarines Norte, Philippine Islands, succeeding Karl M. Stewart. Kelley is a graduate of the University of Arizona and operated in the Superior District of Arizona, before going to the Philippines. Stewart will continue to act in a consulting capacity, as Paracale Gold operations are managed by Nielson & Co., Inc., of which he is Assistant General Manager.
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Russell R. Bryan, Box 1147, Manila, Philippine Islands, is acting as Consulting Metallurgist, for Consolidated Mines, Inc., and at present, is engaged in test work on that company’s Masinloc chromite ore. It is estimated that a deposit of 10,000,000 tons of low-grade ore have been blocked out, and the result of Bryan’s work will be the adaption of this ore, to the metallurgical industry. Bryan went to the Philippines from Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, where he was employed as Chief Metallurgist.
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J. H. OATES TAKES OVER MANAGEMENT OF SANTO NINO

JOHN HENRY OATES has taken over the management of the old Santo Nino Mine, near Pinos Altos, Concheno, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was formerly General Superintendent of Minas de Rayon, S. A., at Ocampo, Chihuahua.

Work is to begin at once on the erection of a 40-ton counter-current cyanide plant, at the old Santo Nino property. Machinery for the new plant is being delivered, and it is hoped to begin milling operations early in October. The mine was operated in the nineties by the Pinos Altos Gold Bullion Company, and the mine workings are said to be quite extensive. There is a 3,800-foot crosscut, at the 1,400-foot level, and the adit to this tunnel is at the mill site, greatly facilitating the handling of ore.

Oates is well qualified to direct operations at the property, as he has had a number of years of experience in the Mexican mining field. He was born at Toronto, Canada, and completed three years of engineering work at the University of Toronto.

His mining career began with the Green Gold Silver Company, now defunct, at Ocampo, Chihuahua, followed by two years with the Santa Barbara unit, of the American Smelting and Refining Company. He then joined the staff of Guanajuato Reduction and Mines Company, and later went to the Dolores Mines Company. He remained with that company for a number of years, during which time he was associated with the Dolores and Los Azules units.

He spent two years with the Dolores unit, as Master Mechanic, and Chief Electrician; two years with Los Azules unit, as Master Mechanic; one year as Mine Engineer, and one year as General Superintendent of the Dolores unit; two years as General Superintendent of Los Azules unit; two years with the Dolores unit as Superintendent of the power plant; and finally, five years as Manager of La Dura unit, of the Dolores Company.

He then joined the staff of Cia. Minera El Pilar, S. A., where he served for three years as Assistant Manager, going from that position, to Minas de Rayon, as General Superintendent for one year; and to Sociadad Explotadora La Republica, as Manager, for two years. Following this he returned to Ocampo as Manager, serving in that capacity until he assumed his present position.
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YEAR OLD AGREEMENT USED FOR SUNSHINE-POLARIS ORE

AN INTERESTING settlement made about a year ago, between the Sunshine Mining Company, and Polaris Mining Company, will now be applied to recently discovered high-grade silver ore. This agreement was made in anticipation of the discovery of ore, although the discovery did not take place until a few weeks ago. The question of ownership of this ore was complicated by the fact that the vein apexed in both the Sunshine, and Polaris properties.

The crosscut, which opened the ore, was driven from a drift on the 1,900 Level of the Sunshine Mine. According to the agreement, net profits from this area will be divided between the two companies. Between the 1,700 Level, and the surface, Polaris will receive 60 percent, and Sunshine 40 percent. Between the 1,700 Level and the 3,700 Level, Sunshine will receive 60 percent and Polaris 40 percent. The zone involved, shortens with depth, and any extension of it below the 3,700 Level has been left for future agreement. Polaris will work the area above the 1,700 Level, and Sunshine will work the area below the 1,700 Level.

R. D. Leisk, Box 126, Kellogg, Idaho, is General Manager of the Sunshine interests, and James F. McCarthy, of Wallace, is President of the Polaris Company. The Polaris Mining Company is controlled by Hecla interests.
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ARIZONA OPERATORS DISCUSS IMPORTANT MINING SUBJECTS

T HE Southern Cochise Council of the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association, was organized March 26, as the twelfth of the 40 councils which are being formed in Arizona, and which will include a membership of over 3,000 owners and operators of small mining properties. M. W. Merrill, of Warren, Arizona, was elected Chairman. It was announced that the jurisdiction of this council would cover the whole southern part of Cochise County, and include at least 150 small mine operations.

Other officers selected were F. M. Johnson, Vice-Chairman; C. C. Beddome, Secretary; and C. W. Gabrielson and Harry Jennings, on the Executive Committee. All are residents of Bisbee. The Executive Committee was not completed, as it is planned to add members as representatives of the different mining sections.

The meeting was addressed by Charles F. Willis, editor of The Mining Journal. After the general problems were presented, and the methods explained, whereby some of the detrimental conditions may be alleviated or removed, a general discussion was started, which brought out the fact that the small mine operators are thoroughly angry, over the way they have been treated, and are militantly going after improved conditions.

“Some people of this state,” stated Chairman Merrill, “have gotten the idea that the mining industry of Arizona consists of the six or seven large companies who are targets for demagogues to shoot at, simply because of their size, and not because of anything they do.

“As a matter of fact,” continued Merrill, “the real mining industry of the state is the 4,000 small mine owners and leasers, who are working against obstacles, trying to make more big mines. Every time a brick is heaved at the big mine, it hits and injures many small mine operators, who are struggling hard for success. We are getting tired of dodging these brickbats, and are about ready to heave some of them back, at those who are inciting the throwing.”

The increasing costs of mining were flayed at the meeting, by several speakers who pointed out that higher costs, and increasing tax burdens, were depleting ore reserves faster than scientific research, and improved metallurgical methods, could make them. Higher costs can do more, and work faster, to take rock out of the commercial ore class, and put it in the worthless material group, than actual mining operations. On the other hand, lower costs make new ore reserves very rapidly, it was pointed out.

A program to bring legislative stability and a better understanding of the interdependence of all industries, as a means of inducing new capital, to develop the resources of the state, was the highlight of the discussion at the organization meeting of the Tombstone Council of the association, held in Tombstone, Arizona, March 22. As leaders of this council, G. J. McCabe was selected as Chairman; J. H. Macia, Vice-Chairman; A. Cristini, Secretary; and Walter H. Cole and A. P. Giacoma, on the Executive Committee. Twenty members were enrolled at the meeting. Mine operators of the Courtland and Gleeson, Arizona, districts, will also become members of the Tombstone Council.

Arizona has demonstrated mineral opportunities far in excess of any other state, and has produced over three billions of dollars in metals, stated one speaker, and can continue to produce billions more, if the people of the state will show that they want outside capital, and will treat it fairly, when it gets here.

It was pointed out that the future of the state does not lie in legislating out of existence, the resources which we have, but of making it possible to create additional mineral resources, which will provide a taxpaying backbone for hundreds of years to come.

A. B. Wadleigh, Dos Cabezos, Arizona, was elected Chairman of the Northern Cochise Council, of the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association, at its organization meeting held in Willcox, on April 6. The district includes the mining areas adjacent to Willcox, Dragoon, Johnson, Dos Cabezos, Bowie, and Klondyke. It is planned to hold meetings in various parts of the district, but headquarters will be at Willcox.
Other officers elected, include Peter Dworacyk, of Dragoon, Vice-Chairman; F. P. Harris, of Willcox, Secretary; and Charles Grunow, Willcox, and Ben Kratzburg, Bowie, as members of the Executive Committee.

Among the many subjects of interest to mining men, discussed at the Northern Cochise meeting, was the hearing before the Arizona Corporation Commission, scheduled for April 14, relative to the petition of the railroads to increase freight rates on ores and concentrates 10 percent, on intrastate traffic. The association has gone on record as opposing the petition, on the ground that it will do great harm to the mining industry, and especially the small mine operators, and will not increase the revenues of the railroads.

Councils of the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association are already organized and actively functioning at Prescott, Kingman, Superior, Globe-Miami, Winkelman, Mammoth, Tucson, Arivaca, Nogales, and Patagonia, in addition to the more recent ones at Bisbee, Benson, and Willcox. Organization meetings will be continued until the entire state has been covered. Councils will be organized at Safford, Duncan, Clifton, Ray, and Florence, by May 1.
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OBITUARIES
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E. D. Eiswerth, 34, of Cripple Creek, Colorado, died after a prolonged illness on March 13. Eiswerth was the former Superintendent, and Secretary-Treasurer, of the JVL Mining Company.
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J. C. Vint ended his life, in a fit of despondency, at his camp near Cottonwood, California, early in March. At the time of his death, he was Superintendent of the Kanaka Corporation, operating near Nevada City, California. Vint had spent some time in Russia, before going to California.
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George Abbott Briggs, 55, died at Santa Monica, California, March 11, 1938, following an extended illness. He was formerly Mine Foreman for Minas del Tajo, S. A. at Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, but resigned from that position, about two years ago, and moved to California, in the hope of improving his health.
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Fletcher H. Parsons, well known mining and smelter man of Arizona, died March 17, at Bisbee, Arizona. He was a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, and was for many years, connected with the United Verde Copper Company, at Clarkdale, Arizona, part of the time as Assistant Smelter Superintendent.
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Jack T. Young, 57, died March 13, 1938, at Tonopah, Nevada. Coming to Nevada 12 years ago, from Washington, Young followed the mining industry for a number of years, developing successful properties in the northern part of the state, and leasing on Tonopah Mining Company ground, for the past six years.
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Alex Kendrick, 67, died in Wallace, Idaho, after a long illness. A veteran millman of the Coeur d’Alene District, Kendrick was born in Oregon, and came to the Coeur d’Alenes at the age of 21. He was a mill employee of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, and was later employed by the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mining Company.
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Norman Blythe Braly, 57, mining engineer and inventor, died at the Palo Alto, California, hospital, March 25. Braly was born near Sunnyvale, California, and was a graduate of Stanford University, Class of 1905. For many years, he was General Manager of the North Butte Mining Company, of Montana, and following his retirement from that position, he became Assistant to the President of the Ahumada Lead Company. He developed several coal, land, and business properties, at Price, Utah, also.
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Herbert F. Widdicombe, 62, mining engineer, of Denver, Colorado, and Topeka, Kansas, died in a Denver hospital, March 12. He was born in London, England, and was educated at Oxford and Harvard colleges. He was sent to Alaska as consulting engineer, for a London exploration company, and afterwards, went to Montana where he was associated with the Drumlummon Mining and Milling Company. Later, he was employed by the Rothschild and Guggenheim interests. He made a survey of the Homestake property, at Lead, South Dakota, and designed, and supervised the construction of one of the first mills installed there.
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A. C. Barke, Superintendent, and operator of the Lucky Joe Mine, of Le Roi Mines, Inc., near Jackson, California, died February 9, of burns and suffocation. His charred body was found in a smoldering mattress, and the supposition is that the fire was started by an electric sun lamp. Barke had been associated with the Lucky Joe property for the past 20 years, and was personally interested in the mine. He was a well known mining and metallurgical engineer, and was for many years, connected with the U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining Company. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. His home was at Santa Monica, California.
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John A. Weir died February 17, at his home in Socorro, New Mexico, following a brief illness. He had been a member of the faculty of the New Mexico School of Mines, since 1924, and for the past seven years, was head of the Civil Engineering Department. Weir was a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Class of 1909, and prior to his association with the New Mexico School of Mines, he had served as Mining Engineer for the Stratton Independence property, at Cripple Creek, Colorado; Surveyor for the U. S. Reclamation Service; and Superintendent for the Ozark Smelting and Mining Company, Magdalena, New Mexico.
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Dr. Steven Howard Worrell, 57, the first Dean of the College of Mines, at El Paso, Texas, and one of the leaders in securing the establishment of the college as a branch of the University of Texas, died March 20, in Honolulu, where he had lived since 1925. A graduate of the University of Texas, in 1902, he continued his studies at the Colorado School of Mines, and followed that by three or four years of experience as mining engineer in Mexico. Returning to the University of Texas, he was identified with the Bureau of Economic Geology, there. In 1914, when the College of Mines was established, he was appointed the first Dean, and remained in charge, until 1923, when he was succeeded by Dean John W. Kidd. Thereafter, he returned to Mexican mining for two years, before going to Honolulu.
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HARRY ALLEN CLARK

HARRY ALLEN CLARK, Manager of the Smelter Division, Copper Queen Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona, died of a cerebral hemorrhage, April 1, 1938, at the age of 67. He had long been a prominent figure in the copper industry.

A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Clark left a post as machinery salesman with the McCormick Harvester Company, in 1906, to become General Master Mechanic of the Oliver Mining Company, a unit of the United States Steel Corporation, at Coleraine.

Five years later, he moved to Arizona, where he was employed at Bisbee, as Master Mechanic of the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company. In 1914, he directed, as Superintendent of the Calumet and Arizona Smelter, at Douglas, reconstruction of the smelter now serving Phelps Dodge.

He was appointed Manager of Calumet and Arizona Mining Company in 1925, following the resignation of General John C. Greenway, and served in that position until 1931, when the company was merged with Phelps Dodge. Under the new management, Clark remained at Douglas, as Manager of the Smelter Division, and was active in that capacity until his death.

He was a life-long Republican, and was prominent in party affairs, in Arizona, serving on both the state, and county Republican central committees. The late Governor B. B. Moeur, a Democrat, appointed Clark to membership on the State Welfare Board. He was prominently affiliated with Masonry in Arizona, and was a past Potentate of the Shrine.

P. G. Beckett, Vice-President in Charge of Operations, of Phelps Dodge Corporation, in a tribute to Clark, said that “the state of Arizona, the Bisbee and Douglas districts, and all of his many friends, have suffered a great and irreparable loss” in his death.

“He was a man of exceptional ability and talent,” Beckett said, “and from his store of wisdom and practical common sense, came metallurgical developments that were outstanding in the smelting world, and added greatly to his prestige. In his passing, I feel a very great personal loss.”
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rehab · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: MINING MEN BIOS EMJ 2-9-1924

Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Vol. 117, No. 6 2-9-1924

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

George Oarks, of the Alaska staff of the General Land Office, is in Washington.
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Galen H. Clevenger has returned from Pachuca, Mexico, and is now in Salt Lake.
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J. S. Denny, of London, is coming to Canada to examine the Tough-Oakes Mine, in Kirkland.
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Dr. W. Dwight Pierce, formerly of San Mateo, Calif., has moved his laboratory to Banning, Calif.
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J. H. Jenkins, manager of all Texas operations for the Tidal Oil Co., has returned to Fort Worth, Tex., from West Virginia.
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G. L. Sheldon, of Huertas, Sinaloa, Mexico, recently spent a few days in Denver, returning to Mexico about the first of this month.
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W. B. Hamilton, President, and N. H. Martin, Vice-president of the Texhoma Oil & Refining Co., were in New York on business recently.
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G. E. Wallis, Editor of National Safety News, was in Houston, Tex., early in January. He is studying safety, first as applied to oil-field conditions.
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T. L. Watson, State Geologist of Virginia; is in Washington for conferences with the U. S. Geological Survey regarding co-operative work in Virginia.
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Roland H. Knight, secretary and treasurer of the Iron Cap Copper Co., of Boston, is spending a few days visiting the company’s property at Globe, Ariz.
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John T. Morrow, of New York, has recently returned from a trip of inspection of mining properties, in the Kingman and Chloride districts of Northwestern Arizona.
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Prof. J. C. McLennan, of the University of Toronto, is working on experiments to solidify helium gas, with the object of utilizing the deposits of helium in Alberta.
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F. Ward Paine, of Boston, secretary-treasurer of the Copper Range Company, has returned to the East, after a visit at the properties of the company in the Michigan copper district.
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R. B. Walthall, Chief supervisor of the Oil and Gas Division, of the Texas Railroad Commission, has resigned to accept the position as a member of the Texas State Board of Control. No successor has been appointed.
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Dr. Philip S. Smith and Gerald Fitzgerald reached Seward, Alaska, on Jan. 26 and proceeded to Nenana, where arrangements for outfitting and transporting the party, that will make surveys in Northern Alaska, will be completed.
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Will H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, was the guest of Colonel W. B. Thompson for a day, at Superior, Ariz., where he inspected the new smelter that is nearing completion at the Magma Copper Co.’s mine.
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Julian D. Sears has been selected as Administrative Geologist, of the U. S. Geological Survey, to succeed Dr. P. S. Smith, who has been given a more important assignment. Mr. Sears is a native of Baltimore. His education was obtained in the Friends School of that city, and at Johns Hopkins University, from which he holds a degree of Ph.D. With the exception of two years spent in Central America, for the Sinclair Oil Co., Mr. Sears’ entire experience has been with the Geological Survey, which he joined in 1915.
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A. M. McQueen, vice-president of the International Petroleum Co., accompanied by W. B. Ellsworth, A. W. Shoenleber, 0. B. Hopkins, and J. R. Polley, also of the International Petroleum Co., has left for Talara, Peru. The party will later go to Colombia.
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C. R. Mansfield and J. T. Pardee will leave on Feb. 10 for Bartow, Fla., to take charge of the work of prospecting for phosphate in that vicinity. Mr. Mansfield also will visit the South Carolina phosphate field. Later he will go to Anniston, Ala., to see electric furnace treatment of phosphate rock, in the preparation of phosphoric acid, and ferrophos.
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W. R. Thomas has resigned his position as manager of the Tough-Oakes Burnside Mine, of Kirkland Lake. He will be succeeded by B. W. W. MacDougall, a graduate of Queens University, Kingston, who had served two years with the Canadian Geological Survey, and had a wide mining experience in California, Colorado, and British Columbia. He was also superintendent of the Peterson Lake Mine, at Cobalt, for two years.
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Captain Thomas J. Stevens, of Ironwood, Mich., one of the oldest mining men on the Gogebic Range, retired on Jan. 31. Captain Stevens, although well past seventy, has for the last ten years, been in active charge of the Aurora Mine, and previous to that, was Captain of the Pabst Mine, for many years. He is succeeded at the Aurora Mine, by William Gribble, who has been assistant to him for several years. Besides his mining work, Captain Stevens had been active in public offices, and had done much for the development of the community.
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L. S. Cates, vice-president and general manager of the Utah Copper Co., W. S. Boyd, general manager of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., and C. A. Smith, superintendent and assistant general manager of the same company, are visiting Bisbee, Ariz., for the purpose of inspecting the new concentrator of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Warren, and will leave later for Ajo, where they will visit the new concentrator which has for some time been under construction at the property of the New Cornelia Copper Company.
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OBITUARY

Ralph Edwin Mayer

An Appreciation By James F. Kemp

The passing away on Jan. 23, 1924, of Ralph Edwin Mayer, Professor of Engineering Drafting, in the Faculty of Applied Science of Columbia University, removed from a wide circle in the engineering profession, one who had been for many years, exceptionally and characteristically valued as a friend and adviser.

A man of peculiarly loyal and sympathetic nature, Professor Mayer had been the counselor of all those students who came within his sphere of influence, and who needed help, whether in the way of advice from one who understood their difficulties, or a bit of aid to tide over financial stress; or a friendly hand to steady in time of trouble. Many scores in all parts of the world carried with them, into their professional work, cherished recollections of kindly acts from their old friend, and either have learned, or will learn, of his loss with inexpressible regret.

Professor Mayer was born in New York City, Jan. 19, 1859, and was thus just past his sixty-fifth birthday. He was educated in the schools of the city, and passed upward into the City College, where he had as a classmate and early friend, General George W. Goethals, who entered West Point, as Ralph Mayer turned to a course in civil engineering, in the Columbia School of Mines. Mayer took his degree with the Class of ‘79, and at the unusually young age of twenty.

In his class, and among his warm friends, were others who have done exceptional work in mining, metallurgy, and pure science: T. H. Leggett, Edwin Ludlow, George C. Stone, Isaac B. Johnson, N. L. Britton, director of the New York Botanical Garden, and Arthur Hallick, paleobotanist on the U. S. Geological Survey.

For three years, after graduating, Ralph Mayer was private assistant to Prof. William P. Trowbridge, and gained a varied experience in lines of civil engineering. When, however, in 1882, a vacancy appeared in the drafting room of the School of Mines, Mayer, who had exceptional skill with pen and pencil, was appointed to fill it. Starting in a junior position, he passed through all grades in his forty-two years of service, to the full professorship, which he held at his death.

Instruction in the various branches of drafting was only a part of his service, and in the last fifteen years, the lesser part. Fifteen or twenty years ago, he became secretary of the Alumni Society of the School of Mines, and was thus brought in touch with a wide circle of alumni; the position he filled at the time of his death. Its duties involved the keeping of professional records, aid in finding positions, and counsel in time of need. It naturally developed into membership on the Committee on Admissions, on the Committee of Instruction, and secretary-ship of the Engineering Faculty, all of which brought Professor Mayer into intimate relationship with the Dean’s Office in the work of administration.

In this connection, his chief service was rendered, and his relations became peculiarly close with the student body. When his Class of ’79, on one of their anniversaries, raised a loan fund for students in engineering, they placed its management in Professor Mayer’s hands. When old graduates sought a young helper, they habitually wrote to Professor Mayer and received such reliable and discriminating judgments and recommendations, that his word commanded exceptional confidence. Indeed, on all these, and other sides of the human relations in an engineering school, Professor Mayer was a man of extraordinary usefulness.

He was naturally of an extremely warmhearted and sympathetic nature, loyal to his friends in the highest degree, unselfish and untiring in the discharge of his duties. The strain of these, with some weakness of the heart-action, which developed quite alarmingly a week before his demise, brought the end on Jan. 23, at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York.

Professor Mayer was married Sept. 3, 1903, to Florence E. Hall, of Syracuse. He leaves one son, Ralph Edwin, Jr., born Feb. 12, 1905—and now a freshman in Columbia College. To Mrs. Mayer and her son, the sympathy of Professor Mayer’s many friends and colleagues goes out in full measure.
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Rollo B. Watson, one of the most capable and popular men in Canadian mining circles, died at his home at Cobalt, Ont., on Jan. 30. Mr. Watson was fifty-six years old, and for some time, had been a sufferer from chronic rheumatism, which had crippled him greatly. For fifteen years, he had been a prominent figure in the Cobalt camp, coming there as general manager of the Nipissing Mining Co., Ltd., in 1908, a position which he held continuously until his death.

Mr. Watson was born at Warren, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 1868. He was graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1891, and immediately went to Chihuahua, as assayer. In the next six years, he saw service in various mines and mills in Idaho, Utah, Brazil, and Mexico, becoming manager of the Mexican Copper Co., Ramos, San Luis Potosi, in 1898. From 1904, to the time he went to Cobalt in 1908, he was consulting engineer for the Shannon Copper Co. at Clifton, Ariz., and examining engineer for W. B. Thompson in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; also consulting engineer for El Rayo Mines Co., Chihuahua, and the Santa Rita Mines in Zacatecas.

Always taking a deep interest in Northern Ontario mining affairs, Mr. Watson had been an active member of the Temiskaming Mine Managers’ Association, and was a past president of the Ontario Mining Association. He was also a member of the Canadian and American Institutes, and of the Mining and Metallurgical Society. In New York, he held membership in the Columbia University, and Rocky Mountain clubs.

Mr. Watson will be missed by every mining visitor to Cobalt, as well as by his neighbors. His hospitality both at the office and in his home will not soon be forgotten. To his wife, Mrs. Hallie Ramsay Watson, goes the sincerest sympathy of his friends on this journal and of the mining fraternity.
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Joseph F. Spellman, for many years the Denver representative of the Chrome Steel Works, at Carteret, N. J., died on Jan. 20. Arthur R. Allen has been appointed to succeed Mr. Spellman, with offices in the United States National Bank Building, Denver.
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George Hooper, superintendent of the Victoria Copper Mining Co., Rockland, Mich., for twenty years, and one of the pioneers in the copper-mining industry, in the Michigan district, is dead at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he went to spend the winter. He was sixty years old. Mr. Hooper was the son of the late Capt. Thomas Hooper, superintendent of the Victoria, before him. He was born in Rockland, Ontonagon County, in 1864, and is survived by his widow, four sons, and three daughters.
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Joseph T. Terry, widely known mining man of Silverton, Col., died suddenly of heart disease, in Denver on Jan. 31. Mr. Terry was born in Cañon City, Col., fifty years ago, and thirty-five years ago, moved to Silverton. He held a large amount of stock, and was a director in the Sunnyside Mining & Milling Co., of Eureka, and was president of the Wide West Mining Co., of Georgetown.
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Howard R. Hughes, president of the Hughes Tool Co., manufacturers of oil-well drilling tools, died suddenly in his Houston office, on Jan. 14, 1924. The cause of death was heart failure. Mr. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Mo., in 1869, was a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1897, entered the oil business in Texas in 1900, and soon after became interested in the manufacture of oil-well drilling tools. He is survived by one son, Howard R. Hughes, Jr., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Hughes, of California, and two brothers, Rupert and Felix, both of New York.
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Henry George Merry died in Miami, Fla., on Jan. 17. He was born in Negaunee, Mich., Nov. 10, 1861, the eldest son of Captain Henry Merry and Sarah Ray Merry. His father was a pioneer in the iron development of Lake Superior. H. G. Merry received his early training at the Jackson and other mines, later attending the University of Michigan.

From 1887 to 1900, he served the Low Moor Iron Co. of Virginia, as manager. From 1901 to 1906, he was directing manager of the Montana Coal & Coke Co., and from 1906 to the time of his death, he was engaged to the development of the iron and timber resources in western Michigan, of the Merry Land Company, of which he was president. Mr. Merry had been a member of the A.I.M.E. since 1889.
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W. C. Ralston died recently in San Francisco. He was the son of William C. Ralston, one of the associates of Mackay, Flood, Fair, and O’Brien, of Comstock, and San Francisco history. As a mining engineer he financed and developed the Melones Mine, at Robinson’s Ferry, Calif., and was active in the company affairs of other mines. Mr. Ralston helped organize the California Miners’ Association, and with this organization, sought to restore hydraulic mining in the state, after it had been curtailed by the effect of the Anti-Debris Act. He was successful, and the Caminetti Act was passed. He also served as assistant United States Treasurer, and was later appraiser of the port of San Francisco. For a brief period he was a state senator, and later became a candidate for Governor of California.
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rehab · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: MINING MEN BIOS EMJ 9-15-1928

September 15, 1928 — Engineering and Mining Journal-Press

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Edwin S. Giles, mining engineer of Goldfield, Nev., was recently in Los Angeles on a visit.
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Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, for Ontario, sailed for England recently, on personal business.
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George A. Easley, mining engineer of New York, has gone to San Antonio, Tex., for several weeks.
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H. G. Ferguson, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has gone to California, to study conditions in the Alleghany District.
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Louis V. Bender, Superintendent of the Anaconda reduction works, at Anaconda, Mont., has been elected president of the Montana Society of Engineers.
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John Smeddle, of Fontana, Calif., has been in San Diego County, Calif., and is now at Hot Springs, N. M., for the Fluorspar Mines of America, a New York company.
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Douglas A. Mutch has returned to Toronto, from the Chibougamau Mining District, in eastern Quebec. He confirms reports as to the mining possibilities of the district.
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J. A. Swart and Mrs. Swart,left New York on Sept. 8, on the Homeric, for Northern Rhodesia, where Mr. Swart will be engaged in construction work at Roan Antelope.
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B. S. Butler, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has finished his fieldwork, in the Alma Mining District of Colorado, and is returning to Tucson, Ariz., to resume his work with the University of Arizona.
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J. P. Graves was elected president of Constitution Mining & Milling, which controls properties in the Coeur d’Alene District, on Aug. 28. Mr. Graves plans an increase in the output from the mine on Pine Creek.
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H. H. Knox, mining engineer and geologist, and former president of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, is at the Mount Isa Mines, in Queensland. The selection of a method of treatment of the silver-lead-zinc ore developed there, is under consideration.
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Carl Burg, Assistant Master Mechanic, of the Midvale (Utah) plants, of U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining, has accepted the position of Master Mechanic at Rhodesia Broken Hill, the new zinc producer in Northern Rhodesia. Mr. and Mrs. Burg left Midvale recently, for England.
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Walter R. Vidler has just returned to Ontario, after a month spent in examining properties in Oregon. After examining several properties in western Ontario, he will visit the Cripple Creek District of Colorado, on professional business, remaining there until the end of October.
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R. V. Ageton, Accident Prevention Engineer, Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers’ Association, was a visitor in the Salt Lake district, last week. Mr Ageton was returning to the Tri State district, where he will shortly resume his duties following a leave of absence of several months.
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Prof. E. P. Martinson, of the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, Col., has resigned, and will be succeeded by J. C. Fitterer, Professor of Civil Engineering and Hydraulics, at the University of Wyoming. Professor Fitterer was at one time, connected with the U. S. Geological Survey.
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E. J. Bumsted, who was in charge of the property of Humboldt Mining, State of Nayarit, Mexico, is still in the hands of Mexican bandits, who plundered the property,on Aug. 25, and kidnapped him. The bandits have demanded a ransom of $10,000 American currency, and this has been forwarded by the company.
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Alfred L. Anderson, of the Idaho Bureau of Mines, recently completed a survey of the Roundtop, and Marble Creek districts, of Benewah County, Idaho. As a result of his investigations, Mr. Anderson feels the Roundtop district is worthy of systematic exploration. Mineralization is said to be similar to that of the Pine Creek section of the Coeur d’Alene district.
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OBITUARY

JOSEPH PHAROAH, shift boss at the Copper Queen branch of Phelps Dodge Corporation, in the Bisbee district of Arizona, died recently at the Copper Queen Hospital, following an illness of several weeks.
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WILLIAM MILEMAN, a pioneer on the Rand gold fields, of South Africa, died at Johannesburg recently, at the age of 76. He was formerly associated with the Jubilee and Salisbury gold mines. Mr. Mileman took an active part in the Zulu War, and was one of the few who escaped from Isandhlwana, where 800 Europeans were massacred.
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Dr. ALFRED S. MILLER, founder, and first Dean, of the Idaho School of Mines, died recently at Moscow. Dr. Miller was head of the Mining Division of the University of Idaho, from 1897, to 1905. He was a graduate of Stanford University, and subsequently attended Heidelberg, from which he received his doctor’s degree. He engaged in mining engineering at Auburn, Calif., before coming to the University of Idaho. Shortly before his death, he gave his mining library, to the university.
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F. E. BEASLEY, mining and metallurgical engineer with Bunker Hill & Sullivan, in the Couer d’Alene district of Idaho, died Aug. 31. Mr. Beasley was the brother of Alfred F. Eeasley, who recently was appointed superintendent of the Bunker Hill smelter, to succeed the late M. H. Sullivan. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1904, Mr. Beasley joined the staff of the Tacoma smelter. Subsequently, he was associated with Consolidated Mining & Smelting of Canada, at their electrolytic plant at Trail, B. C., and with Burma Mines, at Namtu, Burma, India. He then joined the Bunker Hill staff, and engaged in research work on the Tainton Process, at Kellogg, Idaho.
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Robert Matthew Raymond

An Appreciation

AS ONE who has been associated the late Professor Robert Matthew Raymond for the last 26 years, who died at Prescott, Ariz., on Aug. 23, I wish to pay tribute to his qualities as a man, and an engineer, sentiments which I feel sure will be endorsed by all who knew him.

Dr. Raymond’s keenness and ability underground, were fully demonstrated by the development of the properties of El Oro Mining and Railway Company, Ltd., and the Mexico Mines of El Oro, and his metallurgical knowledge by the equipment of these mines.

Soon after leaving Mexico, he shared offices with me in New York, and undertook the position of Professor of Mining Engineering, at Columbia University, where his interest in his work, and his sympathy for his students, made him an outstanding character.
As a man, his cheerfulness, his understanding, and his kindly nature, as shown by his numerous charities, could not fail to make him beloved by all who came in contact with him.

Dr. Raymond’s ambition was to set a standard for the mining course at Columbia, that would put it ahead of any other course in this country. His death will be deeply felt by all those who have studied under him. His friends and associates fully realize a great nature has left them.

PHILIP L. FOSTER New York City.
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rehab · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: MINING MEN BIOS EMJ 10-6-1928

553 October 6, 1928— Engineering and Mining Journal

ABBOT A. HANKS, of San Francisco, has returned from a vacation in Europe.
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FREDERICK G. CLAPP, who has been engaged in professional work in Persia, is in Paris, on his way back to New York.
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FOSTER S. NAETHING, consulting rnining engineer, has moved from Joplin, Mo., to St. Louis, where his address is 709 Skinker Road.
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L. P. van ZYL HAM, formerly Secretary of the South African Public Service Commission, has been appointed Secretary for Mines and Industries of the Union.
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LEON GABRIEL has been appointed manager of the South American Manganese Company, an English company, that will develop properties in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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FREDERICK LAIST, General Metallurgical Manager of Anaconda Copper Mining, is on his way to Kattowitz, Poland, to spend several weeks at the company’s mines there.
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S. L. MCDONALD, formerly with Hollinger Consolidated, has been appointed consulting engineer to the Night Hawk, which operates in the Porcupine area of northern Ontario.
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F. E. MATTHES, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is to undertake a study of the geologic history of the Mississippi River, and its tributaries, with particular regard to the problem of flood control.
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Prof. and Mrs. MARK EHLE have returned to Tucson, Ariz., after a six-month tour through Europe. Professor Ehle will resume his duties at the School of Mines, of the University of Arizona.
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A. J. REEF, mining engineer of the Compañia Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, Mexico, was recently in Denver, on his return to Pachuca, from Hawaii, where he spent his vacation.
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MANUAL VILLAFANA, engineer for the Compañia del Boleo, of Santa Rosalía, Lower (Baja) California, Mexico, recently made an examination of the Foster Mines, at Shadow Mountain, San Bernardino County, Calif.
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ARTHUR CROWFOOT, Superintendent of the Concentrating Division, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Morenci, Ariz., was in New York this week, for the meeting of the Safety Congress, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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MAJOR MAASDORP, formerly with Nourse Mines, is in charge of development at the Forbes Reef, and Ivanhoe mines, in Swaziland. These mines are included in the mineral rights owned by the Swaziland Corporation, Ltd.
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H. SAUNDERS, mine superintendent of the Broken Hills Mine, in Northern Rhodesia, visited the mining districts of Arizona, in the latter part of September. He will leave for Rhodesia, from New York, in the near future.
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S. R. CAPS, GERALD FITZGERALD, P. S. SMITH, and R. H. SARGENT, are among the members of the U. S. Geological Survey who are returning to Washington, after conducting geologic work in Alaska, during the summer.
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ARTHUR B. PARSONS, recently resigned as associate editor of E. & M.J., to become vice-president of the Mineral Research Corporation, 120 Broadway, New York City.
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T. J. GRUPPING arrived in South Africa recently, to take charge of the new diamond-cutting plant which will be built at Kimberley. Mr. Grupping was formerly manager of the Van Dam Plant, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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WILL IRWIN will speak on Oct. 8, at a meeting of all engineering societies, at the auditorium of Engineering Societies Building, in New York City. His address will be followed by a motion picture film, “The Master of Emergencies.”
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Major-General Sir FREDERICK LOOMIS, President of Power & Mines Corporation, Ltd., and R. A. DARWIN, a director of the same company, recently inspected the Grace Mine, in the Michipicoten District, of northern Ontario.
W. E. SIMPSON is consulting engineer of the property.
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B. DUNSTAN, Chief Government Geologist, of Queensland, Australia, is being dispatched by the government of that state, to Germany, to inquire into, and report on geophysical research, generally.

Mr. Dunstan, who is making a special study of this science, has lately accompanied BROUGHTON EDGE, Director of the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey, over several parts of Queensland, which is now operating in Australia.
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CURTIS L. WILSON, formerly Associate Professor of Metallurgy, at the Montana State School of Mines, who has been studying in Europe for the last two years, and who received his doctorate at Gottingen, last spring, has returned to the School of Mines, and has been made head of the Department of Metallurgy. Professor Wilson will speak on “Educational and Research Methods in European Universities” on Oct. 8, before the Montana Society of Engineers, at Butte.
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TORGUS H. OAAS, foreman of the Belmont Mine, of Anaconda Copper, has been made Assistant General Superintendent of Mines, for the company, and placed in charge of the Belmont, Anaconda, and St. Lawrence mines.
JOHN NORTON, formerly foreman of the Diamond mine, and recently in charge of the Orphan Girl, has been put in charge of the Belmont.
JOHN DUGAN succeeds Mr. Norton as foreman of the Orphan Girl. All three of these men started with Anaconda as miners.
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OBITUARY

THOMAS N. STANTON died in Oruro, Bolivia, on Aug. 4, after a sudden illness. Mr. Stanton, who was 58 years old, had been Mine Superintendent at Cananea, and Parral, before going to Bolivia about fifteen years ago.
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THEODORE CHARLES ROBERTS died in New York on Sept. 20 at the age of 52. Mr. Roberts was for a time, associated in a consulting capacity with the Guggenheim interests, in Colorado, and the Clark interests, in Arizona. During the World War, he manufactured dye-stuffs and chemicals, and thereafter turned his interests to fields outside of mining.
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LYMAN McEWEN, mill superintendent of the O’Brien Silver Mine, in the Cobalt District of Ontario, died on Sept. 23. Mr. McEwen, who was 41 years old, was a graduate of Queens University, Kingston, Ont. He became associated with the O’Brien interests in 1912. During the war, he served with the Canadian forces overseas. In 1920, he was appointed mill superintendent.
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ROBERT P. ROBERTS, Chief Metallurgist for the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company, Queenstown, Tasmania, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage, on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Mr. Roberts graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about 1901. He accepted a position in Tasmania twelve years later, resigning from the staff of Anaconda Copper where he was employed as general smelter foreman, at Great Falls, Mont. For 25 years, he had been a member of the A.I.M.E. A widow and five children survive him.

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